Week 2 (short) thinking and talking about writing
Happy Wednesay (GoogleMeet link )
From last week (strategic redundancy)-->
Here are some short Google Presentation sets (Mb-genrated) that also show how this course works:
- Science writing (eight slides that rely on quotes)
- Logos, pathos, ethos (nine slides)
- Audience, context, purpose (set 1, thirteen slides)
New slide sets: (not curated; are you a bit irritated?)
Frames:
- How to THINK about knowledge and writing (cognitive frame)?
- How to COMPOSE elements/order/arrangement (pattern frame)?
- What writing choices SERVE the reader?
- writing craft frame
- ethical frame
- What is the rhetorical situation (classical frames. including logos, pathos, ethos + audience, contect purpose, see below)?
- logos, pathos, ethos
- audience, context, purpose
- Variations
- canons -- invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory
- stasis theory -- conjection, definitions, causal analysis, good/bad/neutral/unclear, policy
Mascots:
Aristotle (Wikimedia images)
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday.
Watch for an email to all in ELMS re signing up for Eli Review by Tuesday next week.
Let's go back to the Canons of Rhetoric slide set (8) of Wednesday and focus on this last one-->
Go to the padlet on Writing Process models
Mb here: strategic redundancy in platforms (think of the Delivery Canon below) can help audiences. So, in that spirit, here is a link to the padlet on Writing Process models. This additional way to access the platform -- in addition to clicking into the image above and working to the last slide for the padlet link -- is courteous to audiences and respects the varying expertise with this squarespace platform. Bottom like up front (BLUF)?: we have ethical duties to our readers. Also, Aristotle would say, irritating your audience (bad pathos move) impedes your message transmition and lowers your ethos.
In the padlet link we can look at writing process models. Eli Review allows us to really enter into the stages of writing strategically and expertly to compose, draft, reviews, and present really find pieces of written communication.
Let's look again at the canons of rhetoric first presented in this slides because this is the most ancient and enduring models of (oral) communication.
- Invention (imagine yourself as more an inventor or building or active agent of writing and thinking)
- Arrangement (what is the best stteps or order of revealing information for your purposes and your audiences needs?)
- Style (what tone, complexity, vibe, (pathos = feels), warmth/coolness+audience connection serves you and your reader?)
- Memory (sync your brain with the reader(s) brain (s) )
- Delivery (what type of document and in what platform? mono or multimedia?)
This 13-minute YouTube video offers a highly visual explanation on the canons. You can watch, which gives your both audio and visual sensory input (memory aid) OR you could just listen to the narrator (audio modes are learning are powerful and less common in higher ed).
On to next week: we will write a brief memo on rain gardens. In support of this work, spend 15 minutes on the web learning about what a rain garden is. You are using search functions to "invent" what the rain garden is. Pay attention to how searches now give you a combination of AI-assisted text and the classic sets of links for you to use. I suggest reading also the Wikipedia pages (authored by people, many of them experts) on related topics:
- rain gardens
- bioretention
- low impact development