2:30 - 3:45; Tuesdays and Thursdays in 4008 Vilas
Professor Robert Howard
rgh@rghoward.com
http://rghoward.com/
OH: 11 AM - 12 PM, Thursday in 6170 Vilas
Communication Hall and by appointment.

(Please email to verify I will be available during these hours or to make an appointment for another time.)


Schedule
 
Assignment One Prompt

Final Paper Prompt

 
 
Course Objectives:
(1) to place network communication technologies into a rhetorical framework, (2) to consider alternative plans to collect and engage in rhetorical analysis of discourse occurring through network communication technologies, (3) and to develop and execute a rhetorical analysis of a specific document that has been mediated by a network communication technology

Grading Scale:

Grading Scale in Percents of Total Possible Earned Points
 
A : 100 - 93%
AB: 92 - 88%
B: 87 - 83%
BC: 82 - 78%
C: 77 - 70%
D: 69-60%
F: below 60%
 
Individual Assignments with Weights:
 
Undergraduate Students
10%: discussion participation
25%: first assignment

The paper must be 1-5 pages/250-1,250 words.
The paper must be brought to class the day of the group critique.
25%: presentation
40%: final analytic paper
The paper must be 8-32 pages/2000 - 8000 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages.
The paper must be emailed to rgh@rghoward.com by 5 PM on or before scheduled due date via email attachment in pdf., .rtf, .or .doc format.
 
Graduate Students
20% class participation
15%: first assignment

The paper must be 1-5 pages/250-1,250 words.
The paper must be brought to class the day of the group critique.

15%: presentation
50%: final analytic paper
The paper must be 20 -30 pages/6,000 - 10,000 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages.
The paper must be emailed to rgh@rghoward.com by 5 PM on or before the scheduled date via email attachment in pdf., .rtf, .or .doc format.

Required Readings:

Course Packet
(Available for purchase at Bob's Copy Shop on University. The readings from the packet are also available on the schedule page.)
 
Books
(Available for purchase at Underground Textbook Exchange.)
Gurak, Laura J. Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace: The Online Protests over Lotus MarketPlace and the Clipper Chip (Paperback), $22
Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; New Ed edition (February 8, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300078641
ISBN-13: 978-0300078640

Warnick, Barbara. Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web (Frontiers in Political Communication) (Paperback), $26
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (January 22, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 082048802X
ISBN-13: 978-0820488028

Sunstein, Casss. Republic.com 2.0, (soft if available), $25
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (August 20, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691133565
ISBN-13: 978-0691133560

Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (soft if available), $30
Hardcover: 354 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (September 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226817415
ISBN-13: 978-0226817415

Attendance:

Full attendance is required of all students. Because the ideas and meanings in a course such as this emerge in the interaction between the instructor and students, students missing more than 4 lectures shall not have participated at an acceptable level and may fail the course.