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February 10, 2005
Assignment for March 3
To prepare for class,
- Think about any experiences you've had with coding research data, and prepare to share those experiences with the class. Prepare any handouts and copy any URLs that might be useful.
- Come up with a preliminary coding system for your research project for this course. Make copies for the class, and bring them to class.
- Prepare a one-page chronological timetable for your project, listing tasks and target completion dates. Hand this in to me in class.
- Review notes, etc., from any previous encounters you've had with the work of Giambattista Vico, and we'll have a chat about him in class, pooling our information. I'm also trying to lure an actual rhetorician who has some Vico expertise into joining us.
- Read Connors Ch. 4: Aleshia will summarize and lead class discussion
- Read White Ch. 9: Elisa will summarize and lead class discussion. (Recommended background reading: Verene, Donald Phillip. "Giambattista Vico." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1996. 743-745. Sent to you in PDF.) As you read, pay particular attention to White's analysis of Croce's expectations for what invalidates a claim.
- Read White Ch. 10: Ty will summarize and lead class discussion
In class,
- Discuss assigned texts
- Continued discussion of methods for coding research data
- Hand in your one-page chronological project timetable
- With luck, we'll have time to mull over the work of Giambattista Vico, with Denise as volunteered/drafted discussion leader.
Posted by senioritis at February 10, 2005 09:45 AM