Weekly

Readings

THE COURSE READER: The chapters and articles included in the reader are also available
on the librarys E-Reserve at:

http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/search/p?SEARCH=di+lauro

They have been selected to enhance your understanding of the subjects being dealt with
each week and will also assist you in completing online work, discussion posts and your
assignments. These are useful places to start when you begin to research your chosen
discovery topic/question.


Week 1: Introduction to WRIT1001: What is rhetoric and why should I care? (ST)

The Rhetorical tradition : readings from classical times to the present / edited by Patricia
Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg.Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1990, pp. 1-
15.


Week 2: Sources as Ethical Arguments (FDL)

Crowley, S., "Ethical proof," in Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, ed. Sharon
Crowley (Macmillan College Pub. Co.: New York, 1994), 81-116.

Gibaldi, J., and America Modern Language Association of, "Plagiarism and Academic
Integrity," in MLA handbook for writers of research papers (Modern Language
Association of America: New York, 2009), 51-61.


Week 3: Visual/Digital Rhetoric (ST)

Rottenberg, A. T., "Reading visual texts critically," in The Structure of Argument, ed.
Annette Rottenberg and Donna Haisty Winchell (Bedford St. Martin's: Boston,
2009), 61-79.


Week 4: Film Crash (FDL)

Keith, W. M., "Rhetoric and Audience," in The Essential Guide Rhetoric, ed. William M. Keith
and Christian O. Lundberg (Bedford St. Martin's: Boston, 2008), 11-23.

Charteris-Black, J., "Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership," in Politicians and rhetoric :
the persuasive power of metaphor ed. Jonathan Charteris-Black (Palgrave
Macmillan: New York, 2005), 1-31.


Week 5: Film Crash (FDL)

Bordwell, D., and K. Thompson, "Glossary," in Film Art: an introduction, ed. David Bordwell
and Kristin Thompson (The McGraw-Hill Companies: New York, 1997), 447-82.

Corrigan, T., "Film terms and topics," in A short guide to writing about film, ed. Timothy
Corrigan (Longman: New York, 1998), 34-77.


Week 6: Types of Argument / Essays (BM)

Lamm, R.L., and J. Everett, "Strategies and Fallacies," in Dynamic Argument (Houghton
Mifflin Company: Boston, 2007), 287-318.


Week 7: Paragraphing and Critical Thinking (BM)

Gopen, G., Whose Paragraph is it Anyway? The Shapes of the English Paragraph, in The
Sense of Structure: Writing from the Readers Perspective. (Pearson, 2004), 94-129.


Week 8: Film Thank you for Smoking (FDL)

Burki, T., "Film: Spin Doctor," The Lancet Oncology 7 (July 2006).

Olivier, B., "Pseudo-communication and the return of the sophist: Thank you for smoking,
at first sight," Communication 33 (2007): 45-62.


Week 9: Film Thank you for Smoking (FDL)

Thompson, S., "Consumer Ethics in Thank You for Smoking," Film-Philosophy 13 (April
2009): 53-67.


Week 10: Rhetoric and Culture 1 (BM)

Connor, U. Intercultural rhetoric in the writing classroom, (Ann Arbor : University of
Michigan Press, c2011), Chapter 3, pp. 25-35.


Week 11: Rhetoric and Culture 1 (BM)

Inch, Ed. S. and B. Warnick. Critical thinking and communication : the use of reason in
argument (Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2010). 6th ed. Chapter 3, pp. 66-92.


Week 12: Written v Oral Arguments (ST)

The Differences between Speech and Writing: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Connors, R.J., College Composition and Communication, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Oct., 1979), pp. 285-
290


Week 13: Peer and Self Reflection, Editing and Proofreading as Rhetorical Practice

Williams, J. M., Style : the basics of clarity and grace, (The University of Chicago ; Revised
by Joseph Bizup, Boston University, Boston : Pearson, 2015). 6th Edition. Lesson
11, pp. 131-150; Credits, pp. 151-152.