I’ve offered feedback, either as comments on your blog posts or via email, to your Counterstory drafts. As you move toward your final–due on Tuesday, October 3–keep the assignment rubric in mind. I’ll be looking for you to tell stories, to use narratives with composite characters that help me understand the stock story and counterstory that build the purpose of your final piece. I will expect to see your purpose stated early on in your final draft, and I will also expect you to quote Martinez and another outside source. Today, we will look together at Angelis’ and Jade’s drafts as strong examples of creating composite characters.

We’ll revisit Downs’ article “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making,” specifically focusing on the components he describes as part of rhetoric. Downs states that “rhetoric refers to a set of principles that explain and predict how people make meaning and interact” and goes on to explain that humans are rhetorical “anytime we are making meaning and interacting” (p. 460). Downs understands rhetoric as an operation system of human motivation that exist within an ecology. We’ll work together today to understand these terms and work in this collaborative document defining motivation and ecology.

HOMEWORK

READ Foss & Griffin’s “Beyond Persuasion.” (Note that you need to download Foss & Griffin’s text from that external page.)

REVISE your Counterstory Assignment and post as a new page by Tuesday, Oct. 3.

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