Project Sequence Overview
- Project One: Conjectures
- In this project, you will study an issue in order to discover how that issue is depicted by people who are interested in it. Depictions of a state of affairs are called "conjectures" in rhetoric. The point of the project is to understand that it is possible for events and objects in the world to be depicted differently by people who are advancing their own interests.
- Project Two: Values
- In this project, you will be asked to return to your thinking about the ways in which people depict a state of affairs about which there is disagreement and to now consider something that is a bit more difficult to determine: the structure of values that create agreements and disagreements. The focus of this project will be on identifying and investigating the power of a rhetoric that gives a person, event, thing, idea or situation a particular quality.
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- Project Three: Proposals
- In this project, you will be asked to advocate that something be done (or not be done) or that some procedure be changed. You may make arguments for or against specific policy proposals that have actually been made or you can call for completely new policy recoomendations. Your purpose will be to propose a course of action that is likely to persuade a particular audience and on a specific occassion.
- Project Four: Reflection
- In this project, you will be asked to review and reflect on the work you have done for English 216 throughout the semester.
