Wayne C. Booth

How does Booth define the rhetorical stance? List and define all of the perversions of the stance that he names. To which perversion do you find yourself most inclined, and how might you combat that as you revise you blog posts? 

Peer Review Groups

Group 1
Emily Anderson
Bisha Wanzala
John Rinehart

Group 2
Noah Dively
Jacob McLeland
Samar Ghai

Group 3
Jack Hall
Alex Pressley
Marshal Withington

Group 4
Mikayla McCord
Lelia Rice
Taylor Dively

Group 5
Frank Tkach
Katherine Zeller

Group 6
Connor Hutt
Haley Strunk
Mary Boykin

Group 7
Chloe Rafferty
Claire Spence
Gabriella Ruff

Group 8
Benjamin Giddens
Zachary Speaks
Shatia Hunter

Question About Worksheet 7

Did you write your sentences in paragraph form or list form. Please explain your decision.

Class Discussion 4/13

Summarize Greene's argument. What is the relationship between this academic argument, his topic, and the voice he uses. With what advantages does it afford him? With what disadvantages does it afford him. Assuming Greene is not stupid (never assume authors are stupid), why did he choose to write his article like this?

Reading Question 4/13

How does Greene define under-fucking, and in what two ways does Narcosis enact this concept?

Extra Credit Sound Art

Today, we are going to be listening to sound art--people mixing things oddly, running algorithms, focusing on minutia, and generally experimenting to see what new sounds can be created and what we can learn from them. None of this is supposed to be "music" and none of it is supposed to be passively enjoyable. Instead, its supposed to produce an experience that perhaps we can learn from. You don't have to "get" any of it, but I ask that you not be dismissive.

A Room Listening to Itself

4/6 Conducting a Holistic Analysis

Your final blog post asks you to combine multiple styles of analysis that ask you to think about single tracks, the album as a whole, what genre the album came from, how the album affected the genre, the social milieu in which the album was create, the albums cultural impact, the influence of the album, the recording of the album, the artist's professional biography, the artist's personal biography, the sonic elements of the album, and the lyrical content of the album. This is a lot of different information to handle. You might want to bracket all of this information into sections, but I urge you to resist this impulse and instead find a way to blend all of these topics. This is the reason I had you listen to the Sound Opinions album dissections.

These analyses of Pet Sounds and What's Going On? blend all of the types of analysis I am asking you to conduct without making it seem choppy or disparate. For today's class I want you to listen to one episode of the podcast and list when the different types of analysis appear and how they are connected to one another. As you make this list, think about how the dissection is organized. What is the overarching logic that the analysis runs on: chronology, themes, etc.

Work on this list in an MS Word document (because you will need to be able to make edits and changes as your work) and then post it as a comment to this blog post. 

Short Answer 4/6

Take a look at the different reverse outlines you did of the Johnson article. What differences do you see between them? In a comment to this blog post, briefly explain the differences you see and give a reason as to why they are so different from each other.

Who Outline 1

Who Outline 2

Who Outline 3 

4/4 Work Day

What are you working on today?

Official Syllabus Change

After discussing this on Tuesday and Thursday, the following syllabus changes are now official: 

1. We are cancelling Blog Post 6 so that you all have more time to revise.
   
2. The eight percentage points from that assignment will be distributed equally between Worksheet 2, Blog Post 2, Worksheet 3, Blog Post 3, Worksheet 4, Blog Post 4, Worksheet 5, and Blog Post 5. This may seem unfair to people who have been doing well on their blog posts but not their worksheets, in response to this concern, I will be changing how end of semester revision functions.
   
3. Since the weight of each worksheet will be going up, it seems that you all should have the ability to revise them as well, but there is a problem. If everyone revised all of the work they did for this class, I would not have the time to grade it. As a compromise, each student will be given the chance to revise five assignments if they wish. These assignments can be either blog posts or worksheets.
   
4. Some of you may have already begun work on Blog Post 6 or been interested in writing it. Since I obviously find value in the ability to write a theory/application paper using difficult material, I want to encourage these efforts. If you choose to write a theory/application post anyway (I will make the new word count 1,200) then I will add three percentage points of extra credit onto your final grade.
   
5. Tuesday’s peer review session is now an independent workday focused on either revision or Worksheet 7.