Week 4: canons of rhetoric+stasis theory
and a bit on directions knitting up from last week (in class). Now, our last sets of rhetorical analysis terms for the special language of discourse analysis.
"Branches" of Oratory (sometimes called "species") For "oratory" think "discourse"
Judicial (forensic, in some translations) see also the Wikipedia entry here
Deliberative see also the Wikipedia entry here
Epideictic see also the Wikipedia entry here
From earlier in the course (sets 1 and 2), now new ways to look at the rhetorical triangles of earlier (logos-pathos-ethos + audience-context-purpose)
Slide set 3: Booth's Two Triangles (OOPS! FIXED; TBD on Wednesday)
Slide set 5: Burke's Pentad on Audience or a Dramatatism Approach (OOPS! FIXED; TBD Wed.)
Link to modern tech: Triangles to Information Theory: Audience
Back to classical rhetoric: Canons and stasis
Set 4 Canons and Writing Process
Scientific method has a cousin -- actually an ancestor -- in stasis theory.
More on stasis approaches:
Stasis and research (Owl Purdue web exhibit, by colleague A.B.)
BYU page on stasis approach (Web exhibit to see how legal process and jurisprudence knits forth)
UPDATED! Try this web exhibit from UTex that uses four-step stasis (from jurisprudence. We in the sciences use five-step stasis because we elevate causal analysis
Stasis and dinosaur debate (download full text PDF and skim, if you care about dinosaurs or were once obsessed)
Question to ponder: our first memo is an act of definition. What is a rain garden? What do you know now about rain gardens?
Marybeth Shea
For Wednesday, we will continue to work within the slide sets posted on Monday. We are focussing on audience analysis, using a number of frames from classical rhetoric, updated and trimmed by modern scholars. I present with triangles and circles and rectangles (document!) to help you remember.
Here is you next suggested text from Hidden Brain, this episode on what social science says about imagining and mis-imagining what people (audiences) think. This genre is a cautionary tale, with sound evidence (logos).
Shankar Vedantum, NPR reporter/host Hidden Brain/ Photo: Douglas Sonders
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday! Tis sweater weather. Here is the GoogleMeet code for today:
9-9:50
10-10:50
11-11:50
Prepping for Monday and drafting the rain garden memo:
- stasis theory and the rain garden memo (two-page google doc)
- Have you used Wikipedia to think about rain gardens? You can use the journalism heuristic to select detais that will help you write a memo (note: you are in the invention stage, here): Who what, where, when, and why.
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