Unit1_Overview
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This document provides an overview of Unit 1 of a course on sense of place and visual rhetoric. The purpose of the unit is to ease students back into academic writing with a creative genre, consider how environments can be rhetorical, and use writing to express images, emotions, and thoughts. The major assignment is a sense of place essay demonstrating how a specific environment can have a rhetorical effect. Readings and assignments are designed to build skills for this, including writing journals, discussion posts, a process assignment on voice and style, and analyzing examples. Deadlines are provided for rough and final drafts of the essay.
Unit1_Overview
- 1. Sense of Place and Visual Rhetoric Unit 1 Overview
- 2. Purpose of Unit • To ease back into the rigors of academic writing with a more creative genre • To consider the ways in which environment, both constructed and natural, can be rhetorical and provoke an intended response • To use writing to express images, emotions, and thoughts • To understand the importance of writing style and voice within a given genre • To begin the process of Becoming Rhetorical by reviewing and understanding the fundamental concepts of textual and visual rhetoric
- 3. Projects and Assignments all work assigned builds toward your ability to complete the Unit 1 major assignment, as well as your ability to demonstrate your understanding of the overall purpose of Unit 1 • Writing Journals • Purpose: to highlight and process important information from textbook readings • Discussion Board posts • Purpose: to process lessons gleaned from readings and build on your knowledge through productive discussion with classmates • Process Assignment: Voice and Style • Purpose: to understand the importance of voice in open-form writing and build toward establishing your own voice for the Sense of Place Essay • Sense of Place Essay • Purpose: to produce an effective and engaging piece of writing that demonstrates your knowledge of the ways in which a specific environment can have a rhetorical effect, as well as your ability to use description and reflection rhetorically to communicate this effect to an outside audience
- 4. Readings keep these purposes in mind when reading the following for Unit 1: • Becoming Rhetorical Chapters 1 and 2 • Purpose: to understand basic concepts of rhetoric, and associated terms, which will serve as the foundation of all lessons and assignments on which this class (and all communication) is based • Examples of Professional Blog Posts • Purpose: to understand the conventions and style associated with the genre in which you will be writing for the Sense of Place Essay • Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” and Henry David Thoreau’s “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” • Purpose: to understand how other writers within the broader genre of creative nonfiction communicate their unique voice and style through their writing • National Geographic Photo Assignment and Becoming Rhetorical Chapter 4 • Purpose: to understand the basic concepts of visual rhetoric and how you can use images to convey a feeling, a message, or a theme
- 5. Lecture Slides • There are no formal lecture slides to supplement the readings and assignments included in Unit 1 • If you are having trouble starting your essay or understanding what is expected of the assignment, please refer to the “Student Examples” folder for models and ideas.
- 6. Learning Outcomes Addressed • Comprehend college-level and professional prose and analyze how authors present their ideas in view of their probable purposes, audiences, and occasions. • Focus on, articulate and sustain a purpose that meets the needs of specific writing situations • Explicitly articulate why they are writing, who they are writing for, and what they are saying. • Understand writing as an open process that permits writers to use later invention and re- thinking to revise their work. • Give and receive constructive feedback from peers. • Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation and practice appropriate means of documenting their work.
- 7. Major Assignment Deadlines • Rough Draft Due: Sunday, June 18th at 11:59 pm • Submit via the link below the Unit 1 folder and as an attachment to the “Unit 1 Peer Review” Discussion Board • Final Draft Due: Sunday, June 25th at 11:59 pm • Submit via the link below the “Rough Draft” turn-in on the BbLearn Course Site