Technology meets Rhetoric (and they're friends)

In preparation for Mr. Weidig's guest appearance in our E319 class, I will ask you to engage in some eletronic discourse. Mr. Weidig is our school's Technology Coordinator, and he inquires as much as we do into the study of language and composition - of course, his field is focused upon integrating technology into our language and our composition.

So, a few guiding questions for next Monday:

1. How did your cell phone change the way you communicate with your family and your friends?

2. Using the internet, how do you express your individuality in a global community?

3. In what ways have your lives changed as a result of being able to communicate 24 hours a day with ease?

4. How has technology impacted your education for better and for worse?

5. Do your teachers leverage technology in order to improve your learning?

6. Why do you love Facebook, Myspace, text messaging so much?

7. How do programs like Facebook and Myspace help and/or hinder your ability to convey a message?

8. How does the World Wide Web impact who we would consider to be our intended audience when creating text?

9. Is it ok to post anything to the World Wide Web (think free speech)?

10. How does our role as American citizens (or citizens of humanity) affect our purpose and exigence when using technology to create and disseminate text?

Of course, digressions are acceptable.
Have your voice be heard.

Rules of War

Does war have rules?
Does humanity?
Within which contexts? Why?

Sweetheart Debate

Using our timeline of innocence vs. experience, color, geography,
exposition/climax, and transformation,
we can prove that Mary Anne is a walking hyperbole.

However, we must resolve the fact that she regains innocence
at the end of the story.

Three possible interpretations have arisen within the three classes:
1) she is still human
2) she is still human - but she is empty and lifeless
3) she is an animal

Pick an interpretation
and use it to resolve the issue with our heuristic (lens).
Be sure to use textual support,
and be sure to explain your examples and demonstrate their relevancy
(i.e. claim, quote, explain, relevancy).

Goodnight Saigon

Based on what we've read so far throughout the quarter,
who has a better grasp of the war-
Billy Joel or Tim O'Brien?