ENG 375 Spring, 2017Mon. Feb. 6 Week 2-1

Sit in groups:1. 2. 3. 4.Rebekah Danny Ian MoatazNatalie Jay Bryce MadiJon Xavier Andrew J. TaliaAndrew S. Zoe Dasha Jacque

“Wisdom starts with owning up to ignorance.”

Plato, “Allegory of the Cave

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View Plato’s Allegory of the Cave:"Allegory of the Cave"______________________________________________________

Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition. 

Plato in turn served as the teacher of Aristotle, thus establishing the famous triad of ancient philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.  

From Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Class quotes from “Rhetoric…”Class quotes from “What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion” by Conor Neill.Class quotes from “Writing as Technology”

4 Small groups:1. Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” Part 1 & 2

2. Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” Part 3 and “Aristotle…and Joshua Bell”

3. David Bolter “Writing as Technology” pg. 21

4. David Bolter “Writing as Technology” pg. 21-end.

See questions on BB.

Respond on BB.Group 1:Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” Part 1 & 2:1. Create definitions of key terms: 

dialecticenthymemes, syllogisminductionprobabilityexample

2. Discuss quotes you pulled out of Part 1 and 2 as relevant to the conversation of "Composing New Media”3.. Where do you find evidence of Aristotle's "Rhetoric" techniques and principles in current events.

Group 2:Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” Part 3 and “What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion” by Conor Neill.1. Engaging with Aristotle’s ideas, create your group working definition of “rhetoric” as it might apply to composing new media. Quote “Rhetoric” directly and expand.

2. How do examples from your own personal experience or readings, media portrayal etc. align with or diverge from Aristotle’s principles. Quote Aristotle directly and use examples as specific as the example in the Josh Bell story.

3. Aristotle says “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” Discuss Part 2 in relation to means of persuasion that work most effectively on you personally. Discuss if/how/why a means of persuasion works upon us we are/are not more likely to try this upon others.

Group 3:David Bolter “Writing as Technology” pg. 211. Create definitions of key terms:technologyliteracy materiality

2. Use personal experience from life, or readings, or media portrayal to sum up an experience with “the fact that Web pages and multimedia applications can act as well as react, redefining themselves in ways that neither the author nor the reader can necessarily predict in advance.”

3. With your stories from Question #2 in mind, respond to Bolter’s assertion that, “It is probably best to understand all technologies in this way: technologies do not determine the course of culture or society, because they are not separate agents that can act on culture from outside.”

Group 4:David Bolter “Writing as Technology” pg. 21 - end

1. Where do you find evidence of Aristotle's "Rhetoric" techniques and principles in Bolter’s essay? Use specific quotes from both Bolter and Aristotle to make your point.

2. Bolter states, “Individuals and whole cultures do mold techniques and devices to their own purposes, but the material properties of such techniques and devices also impose limitations on their possible uses.” (20) Engage with that idea and discuss Bolter’s history of “new technology” on page 22. What limits have been reached and which do you foresee as being overcome?

3. Where do you find intersections between “Writing as Technology” and the key points of Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” especially as it pertains to ethos and pathos?