Today we’ll start with a round-robin reading of our Counterstory Assignment. Each of us will choose a couple sentences to read aloud to the group and we’ll go around, reading and listening, reserving any feedback until the end. We share patterns and reflections after each member of our community reads.

We’ll then access “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” by Jim Corder, available on our course Blackboard site. Corder’s purpose in this article is define argument, but his intent is to offer a different definition than that proposed by other scholars. Rather than stating a position, acknowledging a counterargument, and proposing a solution, Corder proposes that “argument is emergence toward the other” (26). We read some passages from his article together and discuss what they mean in the context of our own writing.

HOMEWORK

Read Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” (Bb) and Downs’ “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction.”

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