Hour 1

• What have you learned about philosophy and rhetoric?

I thought this was meant to show you can do anything you set your mind to.

This was meant to show that one can do anything they set their mind to.

Comma Splice!

I love eating cake, she loves cookies.I love eating cake; she loves cookies.I love cake: it is totally delicious.I love eating cake, but she loves cookies.She and I love ice cream.I really liked this book because....This is an important piece of literature because....

"He was on fire" (Hall 234).

Michael Hall's essay "Running for his Life"

Their There are many problems in that part of the world.There They're going together to the play.They're Their dog barfed in the yard.

There is a place.Their is possessive: Their belongs to them.

(heirs get money--it's theirs)They're is a contraction: They are totally using two words in one!

Apostrophes

Possession ContractionsEric's gross toupeeHaley's big hatChris' waterThe Chris's projectThe Schwens' project.The toupee Eric found.

they'vewe're

PluralShe likes to drink Pepsi's PepsisHe likes to watch DVD's DVDsPineapple's for sale.Pronoun Possession

Its motor fell out.Their monkey ran away.His dog puked in the yard.The fault was theirs.

I me you usI think this was a very sad story.This was a very sad story.This story made me feel sad for Gilbert.This story is meant to make the reader feel sorry for Gilbert.The essay shows us that we can always turn our lives around.The essay shows that people can always turn their lives around.The essay shows that one can always change his or her life.It shows that you can always change your life.This shows that when you don't try hard, you will fail.It shows that one can always change his or her life.This shows that not trying will lead to failure.

Has this ever happened to you?You work very horde on a paper for English clashAnd then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=)and all because you are the word¹s liverwurst spoiler.Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.

This is a problem that affects manly, manly students.I myself was such a bed spiller once upon a termthat my English teacher in my sophomoric year,Mrs. Myth, said I would never get into a good colleague.And that¹s all I wanted, just to get into a good colleague.Not just anal community colleague,because I wouldn¹t be happy at anal community colleague.I needed a place that would offer me intellectual simulation,I really need to be challenged, challenged dentally.I know this makes me sound like a stereo,but I really wanted to go to an ivory legal collegue.So I needed to improvementor gone would be my dream of going to Harvard, Jail, or Prison(in Prison, New Jersey).

The Impotence of ProofreadingTaylor Mali

Today’s Question

• What have you learned about philosophy and rhetoric?

Wednesday’s Menu

• Discuss “What is Rhetoric?”• Great Speech Assignment

– Select your speech tonight (off limit list)– Outlining info tomorrow (due Tuesday)– Start next Friday

• Audience• “Are Women Persons?”• Developmental Assets• "I Have a Dream“, August 28, 1963

– Compare to “Letter…Birmingham Jail”– Imagery, Anaphora, Allusion, Word Choice, Figurative Language– Annotation

• “We Shall Overcome”– complete reading as homework

Not available

• Susan B Anthony, “On Women’s Right to Vote”

• MLK, “I Have a Dream”

• LBJ, “We Shall Overcome”

• Barbara Jordan, “Statement on the Articles of Impeachment”

• Reagan, “Challenger Tragedy”

• Nixon, “Checkers”