PREPARATION FOR 3/5 (VISUAL ARGUMENTS & OTHER GENRES)

Hello, Everyone:

As a reminder, by 3/5 please make sure you have contacted all members of your Wikipedia working team to do the following:

1. designate a team leader to coordinate the group;
2. decide on when/where you will schedule working time for the remainder of the project;
3. decide on several possible article topics ("pitches"), along with what your group could potentially offer the topic, if we select it for our class project.

Project Wikipedia Working Teams:

• Anneleise Sanchez, Austin Tillery, Morgan Hough
• Lindsey Sullivan, Rachel Cushanick, Shay Morant
• Brittany Stephens, Erik Reed, Jordan Spina, Nick Pelton
• Amanda Diehl, Cassie Hamilton, Joseph Hendel
• Chris Menendez, Danae VanPortfliet, Jenn Gaudreau
• Brittany Morrill, Donovan Todd, Tyler Avery
• Catalina Quintana, Katherine Saviola, Joey Arellano
• Alex Snider, Rachel Young, Stacey Cox

There is no new reading for Tuesday's class, but we will spend the first 25-30 minutes following up Thursday's Wikipedia discussion with Dr. Wadewitz, with the goal of selecting our article topic for the Wikipedia project. I offer you the following links in advance of our discussion:

• a student-produced Wiki Book (not Wikipedia) on <"rhetoric and writing in the public sphere">
• a crowd-sourced book (produced by scholars in one week) on <"hacking the academy">
• a Wikipedia page on <"article development">
• another Wikipedia page on <"featured article candidates">.

For the remainder of the class, we will review Ridolfo/DeVoss on "rhetorical velocity" and Killingsworth on appealing to "place" and "time." Our goal is to better understand embodied arguments--especially to understand how much the success of any public-sphere argument rests on its many embodiments (e.g., place, time, audience, environment). We will also consider how some different visual genres have fulfilled the Public Argument and/or what it is like to argue through alternative mediums.

Looking forward to it,

-Prof. Graban