Eastern Oregon University
School of Arts and Sciences

Writing 225: Argumentation
UWR Writing Intensive
New GE: Communication
Old GE: Language and Logic
3 units
Winter 2004
MTR 12 - 12:50 PM LH 114
#60472

Instructor: Nancy Knowles, Loso Hall 146, 962-3795, nknowles@eou.edu
Office Hours: M 1-3, T 1-2, R 1-2, and by appointment
Course Home Page: http://www.eou.edu/~nknowles/winter2004/wr225syl04.html

Catalog Description: Continued practice in the development ofa disciplined writing process, emphasizing methods of argumentation, discussionof false and valid arguments, and the use of evidence. Selected rhetoricaltheories from the ancient to the contemporary are examined.
Prerequisite: WR 121 or 131.

General Education Course Information:

• WR 225: Argumentation meets the mission of General Education by challengingstudents to become critical, creative thinkers in reading, writing, andspeaking.
• WR 225: Argumentation meets the GE Communication component.
• For outcomes and assessments, see below:

UWR Writing Intensive Outcomes:

• Students will produce at least 3,000 words (including drafts, in-classwriting, informal papers, and polished papers); 1,000 words of this totalshould be in polished papers which students have revised after receivingfeedback and criticism.
• Students will be introduced to the discourse forms appropriate to the disciplinethe course represents.
• Students will write at least one paper integrating information from atleast one source, employing the appropriate documentation style for thediscipline represented by the course.
• Students will draft, revise, and edit their formal written work.
• Students will seek assistance from a Writing Tutor in the Writing Lab whenneeded and when referred by the instructor.

Additional Outcomes:

• Students will understand what makes arguments effective and ethical.
• Students will analyze written arguments.
• Students will produce and revise effective, ethical, oral and written argumentsfor a variety of subjects, occasions, audiences, and purposes.

Means of Assessment:

• Participation (10%): speaking in class, in-class writing and activities,and one teacher-student conference are required. Visiting the Writing Lab(get a blue form!) earns extra credit.
• Four 1000-word formal papers (70%):Deadlines for drafts must be met. I may require further revision beyondthe final draft, and I will accept any revisions you choose to make untilthe last day of class. All revisions must be accompanied by the gradeddraft. Revision grades, if higher, will replace the initial grade, butrevision does not guarantee a higher grade.
• Oral presentations (10%)
• Assessment of own writing and that of classmates (5%)
• Final examination (5%): Allstudents must attend the final exam on the assigned date. During the exam,each student will make a presentation regarding the fourth assignment andwill do some reflective writing.

Required Materials:

• Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. RuszkiewiczEverything's an Argument(3rd. ed.)
• Available on electronic reserve at Pierce Library <http://pierce.eou.edu>:excerpt from Scholes's Protocols of Reading
• Available on line: King "Letter from Birmingham Jail" <http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html>,Swift "A Modest Proposal" <http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html>,Shulman "Love is a Fallacy" <http://users3.ev1.net/~rooftopyawp/loveisafallacy.html>,Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron" <http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/personal/bergeron.shtml>
• Paper copies of any cited secondary material and extra copies of roughdrafts

Grading information,rules, and guidelines common to all my syllabi

Schedule:

Date	Class Activities	Assignments Due
1/5M	Course Introduction  Discuss first paper assignmentand chapter presentations
1/6T	Introduction to Argumentation	Read first 18 paragraphs or so of King "Letter from Birmingham Jail"<http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html>
1/8R	Appeals and Advertising	bring a magazine ad  Lunsford chapters 4-7 and pages 312-313 Group presentations
1/12M	Advertising and Ideology	excerpt from Scholes Protocols of Readingon electronic reserveat Pierce Library <http://pierce.eou.edu> Bring magazine ad for first paper
1/13T	Response Groups	bring 3 copies of draft
1/15R	Discuss Advertising Paper Logic	Lunsford chapter 8
1/19M	NO CLASS--MLK Holiday
1/20T	Reflective writing Discuss second paper assignment	Final draft of first paper due with accompanying materials
1/22R	Definition and Evaluation	Lunsford chapters 9 and 10 Chapterpresentations
1/26M	Causal and Proposals	Lunsford chapters 11 and 12 Chapterpresentations
1/27T	Humor and Figurative Language	Lunsford chapters 13 and 14 Chapterpresentations
1/29R	Swift	Swift "A Modest Proposal" <http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html>
2/2M	Evaluating Argument	bring the text you've selected for paper 2
2/3T	Response Groups	bring 3 copies of draft
2/5R	Discuss second paper
2/9M	Reflective writing Discuss third paper assign. Set up topic presentations	Final draft of second paper due with accompanying materials Lunsford chapter 17
2/10T	Fallacies	Lunsford chapter 19, Shulman "Love is a Fallacy" <http://users3.ev1.net/~rooftopyawp/loveisafallacy.html>
2/12R	Fallacies Work on presentations
2/16M - 2/18R	Presentations
2/23M	Third Paper Workshop	Review Lunsford page 60-61, "Guide" section pertinent to your argument,and chapter 18
2/24T	Integrating research sources	bring research materials  Lunsford chapter 21
2/26R	Response Groups	bring 3 copies of draft
3/1M	Discuss third paper
3/2T	Reflective writing Discuss fourth paper assign. "Harrison Bergeron"	Final draft of third paper due with accompanying materials Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron" <http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/personal/bergeron.shtml>
3/4R	Fourth Paper Workshop
3/8M	Response Groups	bring three copies of draft
3/9T	Course Evaluations
3/11R	Reflective writing	Submit fourth paper and supporting materials Submit any revisions
3/17W	Final Exam 10 AM - 12 PM	Presentation