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Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhD

20 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayAbout the Course and Its MaterialsAbout the InstructorAbout Writing, GenerallyHomework (yes, you already have it)Other Topics?

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Rhetoric- the study and practice of argumentation

Rhetorical- having to do with rhetoric

Aristotle and the Rhetorical Triangle-Pathos- appeal to emotion-Ethos- appeal to authority/credibility--Work from good information--Start from an acceptable premise-Logos- appeal to reason

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhD

21 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one

assignment due tonight, another due tomorrow night)

More about Writing, Generally (focusing on contexts of argument)

A Brief In-class Writing Exercise

Irvin notes “Blah, blah, blah” (#), before contradicting with “Yakety schmakety” (#+2).

Three Basic Forms (?) of Rhetoric-Forensic: concerns the past, looks to

promote justice via accusation and defense

-Epideictic: concerns the present, looks to commend honor/condemn dishonor through ceremonial praise/blame

-Deliberative: concerns the future, looks to determine what is in/expedient and to dehort/exhort it

One Scheme of Register (register being the level of formality of a given utterance)

-Formal- long, periodic sentences; Latinate vocabulary; archaic phrasings

-Semiformal- variable sentence length; mixed vocabulary (incl. some jargon); pointed attention to “correctness”

-Informal- typically short sentences; more Germanic vocabulary (except pidgins and insertions such as Spanglish); less emphasis on “correctness”; works well for most public speaking

-Casual- in-group primarily

What has writing been like for you? Why has it been that way?

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhD

22 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one

assignment due tonight, another due Sunday night)

About the Irvin ReadingSomething Else?

(Special Note: See www.elliottrwi.com for updates on class activities, as well as a rubric. I didn’t forget.)

Oxford CommaWe invited the dummies, Obama and Boehnert.We invited the dummies, Obama, and

Boehnert.

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

23 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

Sunday, another due Tuesday)Special Note about SubmissionsAbout the Hinton ReadingSomething Else?

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

27 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (two due

Tuesday, another due Sunday)About the Hinton ReadingAbout the Norton ReadingSomething Else?

Parts of Speech-Noun-Pronoun-Adjective-Adverb-Verb-Preposition-Interjection-Conjunction-Article

In the beginning, there was awesomeness.

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

28 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For Today(Hopefully, the computer will work.)Questions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

tonight, another due Sunday)About the ObitsAbout the Norton Readings (we’ll pick up

the others tomorrow, after you have read and summarized one of them)

Something Else?

Three PurposesAudience Issues-Demographics=Age=Gender=Religious Identification=Race/Ethnicity=Socio-economic Status=Educational Level=Professional Identity

Design Matters!!!McLuhan- “The medium is the message.”

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Consider how this sentence looks and what it means that it looks this way.

Paratext- “beside the text,” features that are associated with the text but are not the words themselves

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

29 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

Sunday, another due Tuesday)About Readings about WritingSomething Else?

The Ampersand (&)

RadarFUBARSNAFU

Jargon- specialized technical vocabulary

Cretic dimeter- a unit of linguistic cadence, typically a poetic unit, consisting of two instances of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, followed by another stressed syllable

He walked down the street.Bob walked down the street.Heavy Bob walked down the street.Bob waddled down the street.Bob staggered down the street.Bob galumphed down the street.Bob sprinted to the bodega.

I have been a member of the USAF (United States Aikido Federation).

It was a piece of Cretic dimeter: [insert definition].

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

30 July 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

Sunday, another due Tuesday, and yet another due Wednesday)

More Readings…Something Else?

In an interview on 30 July 2015, Geoffrey B. Elliott, a visiting assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University, bewailed malfunctioning shift keys.

IMRDIntroduction-What’re we doing?-Why’re we doing it?-Who’s tried it before, and how did it work?Methods-This is how we do it.Results-This is what happened.Discussion-This is why it happened as it happened.-This is what I learn from it.-This is where we can go from here.

It takes more words to write passive sentences.

Writing passive sentences takes more words.

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

3 August 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

Tuesday, another due Wednesday—and a special piece to be done before class tomorrow…)

FormattingSomething Else?

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

4 August 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

tonight, another due tomorrow)Citations (thrilling, I know)Something Else?

Ethos-buildingAs Beer and McMurray note…

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

5 August 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions from Last ClassRemember Your Homework (one due

tonight)From They Say, I SaySomething Else?

Rogeting

Y’all keep saying “creative writing.” What do y’all mean by it?

Declension- how a noun or pronoun changes depending on the function it fulfills in the sentence

To get through two twos takes effort, too.

/snark

Oklahoma State UniversityCEAT Summer Bridge Program

Technical WritingSection C

Geoffrey B. Elliott, PhDGeoffrey.b.elliott@okstate.edu

www.elliottrwi.com

6 August 2015

Please silence all electronics during class time.

For TodayQuestions about EventsFinal Discussions: Where Do We Go from

Here?A Form