Handouts
- Introduction to the Course & Rhetoric (powerpoint)
- Powerpoint on rhetorical situation, PACES and Kristof
- Identifying Claims, Rhetorical Situation and PACES
- Prompt for Assignment 1 (Hari)
- Models, Templates and Signal Verbs for Writing about Arguments
- Describing and Evaluating Arguments: The Toulmin Model, Assumptions Implications & Counterexamples, Fallacies
- Sample student draft paper (uses Wallace as target text) and sample body paragraphs written by variety of students
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The prompt for assignment 4, as well as guidelines for writing the paper.
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The CARS handout on academic discourse.
Assorted Links
Sites to Analyze
- Story Kidnapping baby https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/uncategorized/watch-paedophil-try-to-kidnap-baby-in-stroller-at-dunkin-donuts-cops/
- New politics Today https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/
- Burka Attack https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/uncategorized/scandal-the-burning-of-a-muslim-woman-on-fifth-avenue-what-do-you-think-video/
- Ending The Fed http://endingthefed.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ON3u5rrmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkwWcHekMdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjITitjisY
60 minutes piece on buying twitter followers to put stories at top. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=60+minutes+fake+news
April 27
Can 'only education' solve the fake news problem?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/13/fake-news-101/97846922/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjZHr10oqc
https://www.c-span.org/video/?421730-1/discussion-focuses-fake-news
7 – 10 minutes definition (SEE THEY DO SAME THING WE DO)
14 minutes – facebook SEE.
17. Cat mouse.
18. what is new. CAUSES
19. New causes facebook guy
24 – how make money
New Links & Stories on Fake News
April 25 - research
SDSU library http://library.sdsu.edu/
Search by articles and by databases, and by date range and per review status
Proquest http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/pqrl/advanced?accountid=13758
COLLECTIONS - PROFESSIONAL GROUPS AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Google scholar. If fake news, thinks refers to daily show etc. So need articles from 2016 and 2017. So specify date range.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=fake+news&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
how to find google scholar - google it, https://www.google.com/
FOLLOW A LEAD - break down the problem or causes, effects or solutions, and search on terms related to these.
Example: How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View By AMANDA HESSMARCH 3, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/the-battle-over-your-political-bubble.html
Fake News
Background on alt right: http://globalcomment.com/how-the-alt-right-is-rebranding-white-supremacy/, http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-alt-right-terminology-20161115-story.html
Some Leads to investigate:
News Stories
- Private Email Server and Police Raid
- Amnesty Plans
- Ex-Army Sniper Takes Out Neighbor’s Home Intruder From Bedroom Window
- Over 30,000 scientists say 'Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming' is a complete hoax
- Benton Strategy Group Leaked Report, "Salvage" Plan
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