Please spend about 20-30 minutes responding to this prompt. Please put your name and date in the upper righthand corner, double space and leave 1" margins all around. When you are finished, print out your response and turn it in.

Prompt #1: For those who familiar with rhetoric:

1. What do you know about rhetoric?
2. Where did you learn about it?
3. How do you define it? In what way do you use it (or not)? Successful or not?
4. What are you doing in this class? What do you expect to get out of this class?

1. What kind of experience have you had with writing?
2. What do you think/feel about that experience?
3. How have you used your skills in writing outside the classroom? Successful or not?
4. What are you doing in this class? What do you expect to get out of this class?

Thanks to Dr. Jan Norton from whom I borrowed this prompt.