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FALL 2026 20803 READINGS*
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Week 1 8/24
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Where Does Rhetoric Come From?
Griot | West African, Oral Tradition, Storyteller | Britannica
Week 2 8/31
Research Writing: What’s Your Positionality? From The Weingarten Blog
Wichita Music: “The History of the Tribe” (pages 1-2)
TCU Land Acknowledgement Teaching Guide pages 1-5
Land acknowledgement/Positioning activity due (prewriting for project 1)
Week 3 9/7
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No class, Labor day Holiday
Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment
First draft due before next class period!!!!
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS READING HAS CHANGED FROM THE SYLLABUS
Week 4 9/14
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Giving Feedback for Peer Review - Purdue OWL
Indigenous Knowledges and a Relational Peer Review Process
First draft of Project 1 with Author’s Note for Peer Review Workshop
Sign up for a conference slot here
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No class meeting, instead: one-on-one conferences
Write up notes on peer feedback/revision plans prior to meeting
(On your own post-conference: Project 1 Revision and Editing Work)
Sign up for a conference slot here
Week 5 9/21
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No class meeting, instead: one-on-one conferences
Write up notes on peer feedback/revision plans prior to meeting
(On your own post-conference: Project 1 Revision and Editing Work)
Sign up for a conference slot here
Wednesday 9/23
In-class– Semantle activity and word2vec/Natural Language Processing discussion
Project 1 due by midnight Wednesday 9/23
AI Readings and in-class discussions
Everyone reads:
‘We Are the Last of the Forgotten:’ Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI.
Fort Worth $10b data center developers hold tense meeting with nearby residents
Then choose at least 1 from the list below:
Saying 'Thank You' to ChatGPT Costs Millions in Electricity
Detecting AI-Generated Text: Things to Watch For (faculty resources)
What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know - CNET
“Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse” by R. Heuser (2025) Journal of Cultural Analytics 10(3). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.144825
Pls come to class with some thoughts about AI ethics written down!
Everyone reads: A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler | Common Good Collective (2000)
THEN CHOOSE EITHER
Amnesty by Octavia Butler + Afterword (2004)
OR
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2014) + pls make sure you read the end notes!
Read Timeline of Zine History - Zines and Self-Published Materials - Research Guides & Indexes at The Library of Virginia then pick a zine from the Sherwood Library Zine examples. Be prepared to discuss the zine’s rhetorical strategies in class
Wednesday 10/7
cancelled
Monday 10/12
Project 2 Workshop Cont.
Audience Discussion
AI Policy Cont.
Audience Analysis Overview – How to Make It?
Wednesday 10/14
Workshop p 2
Argumentation styles in-class
Project 2 due 10/16 at 11:59
Monday 10/19
Methods of distribution
Wednesday 10/21
Argumentation/Claims cont
Monday 10/26
Project 3 work time and research discussion
Bring draft/outline of project 3 to class
Wednesday 10/28
Project 3 Workshop
Look over peer projects, bring preliminary feedback for workshop
Full draft of project 3 due before class Wednesday, final draft due Friday
Week 10 10/26
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Project 3 work time and research discussion
Bring draft/outline of project 3 to class
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Project 3 Workshop
Look over peer projects, bring preliminary feedback for workshop
Full draft of project 3 due before class Wednesday, final draft due Friday
Week 11 11/2
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Everyone read:
Zinesters read:
Chapter 12: Visual Rhetoric – Reading Rhetorical Theory
Essay and creative writers read:
Narrative Argument - Excelsior OWL
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Supporting Multimodal Literacy | U-M LSA Sweetland Center for Writing
Examples of Multimodal Texts | UM RhetLab
Project 3 due 11:59 11/4?
Week 12 11/9
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Set project 4 parameters
Digital Rhetoric/Introduction to Rhetorical Practices - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Rhetorical History 2.0: Toward a Digital Transgender Archive | enculturation
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Rhetoric and Composition/Oral Presentations - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
In-class: Choose your own adventure reading bank
Week 13
11/16
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How to Spot Fake News - FactCheck.org
THE LOGICAL FALLACIES - The Visual Communication Guy
Logical Fallacies- Purdue Owl
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Project 4 draft check-in and work time
BREAK
WEEK OF 11/23
NO CLASS
Week 15
M 11/30
Zine Websites - Zines - LibGuides at University of Texas at Austin
Publishing and Distribution - Zines - Research Guides at Dallas College
Full draft of project 4 due 11:59 PM on Monday 11/30
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Bring an elevator pitch of your project to present (informally) first to your table, then to the class. You will have time to workshop this pitch, as well as time to write and informally workshop drafts before the full draft is due for peer review at 11:59 PM on Monday
Carefully read your peer review partner’s project before class, bring detailed feedback for discussion.
Written Feedback for project 4 due before class on Wednesday
Week 16 12/7
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Final work day for project 4
Project 4 Final Draft Due Monday, 12/7 at 11:59 PM*
*THERE IS A GRACE PERIOD OF 48 HOURS ON THIS DUE DATE BUT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE. Because I need to grade everything and give you feedback before the deadline the provost sets, I cannot give extensions for this project. If you do not think you are on track to submit this project before I have to close submissions, come speak to me as soon as possible.
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Review, tying up loose ends, discussion of future directions (zine distros, website publishing/maintence, etc.)
In-class reflection, final, informal presentation workshop
SPOT evaluations
What is rhetoric TO YOU? Activity (in-class)
The final presentation will take place in-person during our final exam period on Wednesday, 12/16 5:00-7:00 PM in Sadler 422
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