2. TODAY
1. Icebreaker: introducing ourselves.
2. Overview of the syllabus
3. So what are we going to be doing?
4. Did someone say Tumblr?
5. Rhetoric: defined.
6. Homework

3. Icebreaker
To start today, I want you to complete what is
likely to be a familiar sort of icebreaker activity.
You will pair up with someone you don’t already
know, and over the course of a few minutes you
will interview that person.
The info you need to get is on the next slide.

4. Find out…
1) The person’s name (obviously)
2) What he/she goes by (if it’s different)
3) His/her major and progress in the program.
4) Why he/she decided to take Digital Writing and
Rhetoric
5) One piece of information that will help all of us
to remember him/her.

5. Now, then…
…let’s talk more specifically about what we will be
doing as a class.
At this point, please either focus on the screen or
open the website at
http://www.phillalexander.com/224
That course website, btw, will serve as our activity
hub and your syllabus.

6. And now, Tumblr
I will show you how to start a Tumblr blog, so follow
along if you’re not familiar with the site.
Please go to http://www.tumblr.com
Once you create your site, please email the URL to
me at alexanp3@miamioh.edu

7. Your first Tumblr Post
We’re going to talk just a bit, then in pairs, I want
you to work on a definition of rhetoric.
According to Aristotle, rhetoric is “"the faculty of
discovering in any particular case all of the available
means of persuasion.”
More definitions here.

8. For Next Time
For Thursday:
Read: The Wikipedia entry on Rhetoric (yay!
Wikipedia!), Chapter one of Everything’s an
Argument (on Niihka), Booth “How Many Rhetorics”
(on Niihka as well) and Selzer, “Rhetorical Analysis”
(this, too, is on Niihka)
Begin: “About Me” Tumblr post.