MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

From Gideon Burton (BYU), these defintions will help us talk about the craft of writing for audiences and occasions.
 Encompassing Terms 
        Kairos 
        Audience
        Decorum 
 Persuasive Appeals 
        Logos
        Pathos
        Ethos

 Canons of Rhetoric 

        Invention

        Arrangement
        Style
        Memory
        Delivery 

One modern approach to rhetoric -- based on all the above -- that condenses many concerns is the rhetorical triangle of audience, context, and purpose.  Here, IEEE summarizes these three concerns.

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CDC fact sheet on corrosion chemistry in water services

AWWA technical manual on corrosion management for lead

Blog post by NRDC analysist

"N" things reporting at CNN

C&E News 2004 news piece

MLive article/process graphic

Water Research Foundation webcast video

TEDX talk by Marc Edwards (2013)

Compound Chemistry infographic on Flint

Preliminary EPA report (leaked) at Document Cloud.

Reddit "Flint", yields this Detroit News article about Pearl Jam donations

NPR web/link to audio from September, 2015

Flint, MI fb page

Corrosion video

UMD DES fact sheet

Read the syllabus and syllabus rationale linked to the right.

For Friday, spend about 30 minutes reading ONLINE about the water problem in Flint, MI.  Pay attention to the types of documents and the publisher (type and platform).  Your goal is to understand primarily the corrosion chemistry science at the heart of this tragedy.   Think about the credibility of the sources you encounter online. Hint:  start by reading about VaTech civil engineering professor Marc Edwards.

by email to me:

Send by mid day on Monday:

Citation approach (formal or natural language, either throughout the document or by sections)

AND, read this link about Randy Olson's approach to summarizing your main message. Send me your AND-BUT-THEREFORE MAIN MESSAGE.

Here is mine, for my research:

Scientists in environmental teams must research carefully within their content expertise using discipline-specific methods AND communicate well across their silos of knowledge. BUT, this communication is just the beginning of advising for environmental policy because stakeholders and policymakers do not always understand scientific communication. THEREFORE, stasis theory from classical and modern rhetoric -- combined with q-sorting from social sciences -- can help environmental teams communicate relevent, complex science for rational environmental problem solving.

Turn in your folder and paper to me in TAWES 1230 by Wednesday, 3 PM.  I will be in on Monday and Tuesday, between 11-1, and then 12 to 3 on Wednesday.  BRING FOLDER TO ME DURING THOSE TIMES. DO NOT DROP OFF OFF TO PWP OFFICE.  Staff cannot handle the number of folders (80 instructors/160 sections/3,000 students!).

Let's look at Kenneth Burke's approach to audience analysis.  Between now and December 16-- due date for your folder and final project (Magnus opus stage in this class), we:

• deepen and refine what the audience needs
• settle on details of our document like voice, design, complexity, section heads, etc.
• check the ethos of our sources (annotations! -- 7-10, to start for a good invention)

Please go here, for all your final project needs. Also find these handouts and directions to the RIGHT >.

Here is a re-post of the checklist for your two-article review.  If you did not earn an A, then please review this with your paper BEFORE Wednesday.  In class on Wednesday and Friday, we will re-design the review, allowing for revision opportunities. This is what we aim at (also a re-post). Here is a checklist for what needs to happen in this assignment.

You will need three or four images for Wednesday; bring them as jpgs.  Candidates?

• journal cover (two articles, two covers)
• web logo from journal site
• images of lead authors (NEED evidence of permission)
• visuals from the articles
• quotes from article desinged into a pull quote
• useful figure from government or open access website

Designed, revised two-article review due on Monday, November 16.

Also, we should think about whale scat, courtesty of IQ.