Second WeekActivity
2.1 Reading and Class Cafe Assignment
Initial
post due Wednesday each week
Reactions
to others due by Sunday each week. Reading Assignment: Chapter 2
Reading Arguments (19-44)
Chapter
Objectives To read
an argument is to enter into a dynamic social conversation. This chapter
describes practical strategies for comprehending and interacting with arguments
you will read as a preparation for writing arguments. In this chapter, you will
learn to:
• apply
different reading strategies such as varying your speed, writing marginal
responses, reconstructing the rhetorical context, and grappling with and
restating difficult passages • read
as a believer by summarizing an article's key points using "does"
statements to express the function of each paragraph (introduces the issue,
elaborates on a point, and so forth) and "says" statements to
encapsulate each paragraph's main idea
• read
as a doubter by questioning and challenging the ideas in an argument
•
consider alternative views •
examine sources of disagreement in arguments' interpretations of facts and
reality; in arguments' values, beliefs, assumptions; and in analogies employed
• use
disagreements in arguments to help you uncover your own values, cope with
ambiguity, and prompt you to investigate an issue for an argument you will
write
Class Café Assignment First
read the chapter, learn about the strategies for reading arguments and then
join us in the class café. We will attempt to articulate and synthesize the
conversation surrounding radio shock jock Don Imus’s firing last week over
comments he made about the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team. I will provide
links to a few articles, and your job will be to apply the 5 strategies for
deep reading outlined in Chapter 2 of your book. I will set up café tables for
a few different conversations, and I hope you join us at each one as we first
summarize the viewpoints expressed in these articles, challenge or question
them, explore the genres and rhetorical context of these viewpoints, and
analyze the sources of disagreement.
Table 1: Reading as a Believer
Table 2: Reading as a Doubter
Table 3: Understanding Genre and
Rhetorical Context
Table 4: Analyze the Sources of
Disagreement Table 5: Using Disagreement Productively
•
Background readings if you have not followed the Imus story (these should not
be included in your cafe discussion): US Radio Jockey
Suspended (reuters video)
Monday
Apr 9, 2007
Don Imus show
loses more advertisers (Reuters) Wed Apr
11, 2007
Imus Remarks and
his apology (video)
Imus on Al
Sharpton's Show (video)
U.S. radio host
Imus fired by CBS over racist slur
by Mark
Egan (Reuters) Fri Apr
13, 2007
•
Required readings for class cafe discussion (we will use these to practice
applying the 5 reading strategies described in Chapter 2): Political Animal by Kevin
Drum in WashingtonMonthly.com
April
11, 2007
Imus isn’t the real bad guy: Instead
of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a
growing gangster culture. By
Jason Whitlock of Kansas City Star April
11, 2007
Differentiating
between Don Imus and Hip Hop: a Statement from Russell Simmons, Chairman and
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President of the Hip-Hop Action Network Businesswire.com April
13, 2007
Hip-Hop On The
Defensive After Imus Incident; Sharpton Calls For 'Dialogue' With MCs
By
Shaheem Reid of MTV News
April
13, 2007
Related Snoop
Dogg MTV Interview: Snoop Says Rappers And Imus Are 'Two Separate Things
By
Shaheem Reid of MTV News
Apr 11
2007
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