Week 1 Overview and Goals

There is a LOT going on this week, so I suggest you get through it by doing one section per day.  You also have a healthy chunk of reading from In Defense of Food (81 pages), so be sure to pace yourself on that one too (I recommend 20 pages a day).

Goals

If we're successful in this module, you'll be able to:

• Reflect on your reading history
• Learn about and apply active reading strategies
• Learn the basic concepts of rhetorical analysis (the rhetorical appeals and argumentative modes)
• Use those modes and appeals to describe how an author's rhetorical strategy works (rhetorical analysis)

Schedule

To reach the goals for this module, you'll need to complete the following activities:

Due dates	Activities
6/27	1. Participate in the Reading History discussion.
	2. Read about Active Reading Strategies and watch my video overview of active reading strategies.
6/27	3. Practice your new active reading strategies on Pollan's Introduction, pp 1-15, and discuss his purpose and major concepts in the "Intro to Pollan Discussion."
	3. Read about the Rhetorical Appeals and the Argumentative Modes
	4. Watch a sample rhetorical analysis of a commercial.
6/27	5. Apply your fledgling rhetorical analysis skills to Pollan's Part 1.  Read Part 1 of In Defense of Food, pp 17-81, and participate in the "Analyzing Pollan" discussion.