Rhetorical+Tools+Materials

=The Assignment=

The Assignment PERIOD 1 Period 1 Section 1: History of and Notes on Punctuation Lucas Bellandi Rowan O’Brien Amina Troupe

Section 2: Teaching a System of Punctuation Matt Niemann Nicholas Alcala

Section 3: Usage and Mechanics Jason Enright Malcolm Gerson Elliot Porcher Lily Becker Abbie Koschik Doron Tann

Section 4: Formatting, Revision, and Writing Process Rebecca van Siclen Julian Kraidelman Miles Bylin Jacqui Brandt Sebastian Urquidi Matt Niemann

Section 5: Stylistic Inventiveness (Artful Sentences) Teddy Shachtman Sabina Marino Jack Knapp Lila Zimbalist

Section 6: Metaphor Jane Bonesteel Eve Cooke Ellie Gustavsen Karla Santillana

Section 7: Sublimity in Writing Ben Zucker Matt Mattias Grayson Katz

toc PERIOD 7 Section 1: History of and Notes on Punctuation Adam Grele Sam Brandt Gordon Glenn

Section 2: Teaching a System of Punctuation Xan Estes Ryan Gibbons

Section 3: Usage and Mechanics Cai Dunne Jack Hymowitz Eden Brandt Eli Frank

Section 4: Formatting, Revision, and Writing Process Peter Solotaroff-Webber Josh Webb Peri Zimbalist Annie Waggoner

Section 5: Stylistic Inventiveness (Artful Sentences) Tien Servidio Raphael Santiago T Divino

Section 6: Metaphor Hudson Santana Nicholas Kopelow Ava Emilione

Section 7: Sublimity in Writing Jeremy Becker Nolan Spaulding Ezra Campos-Periere Andrea Arce Maia Margate-Levine =Articles=

Section 1: History of and Notes on Punctuation
Each member is to read all the articles. Each member will present only on some of the articles. Each member needs to understand how each presentation relates to the whole and how the concepts for the section relate to individual articles. Your individual grade will lower as you reveal you are not aware of how your section relates.

A Brief History of Punctuation: Nordquist

Punctuation in English since 1600: Wilkins

Philosophy of Punctuation: Robinson

Notes on Punctuation: Thomas

Points of Contention: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Punctuation: Watson

The Period Is Pissed: Crair

When Your Punctuation Says It All (!): Bennett

Section 2: Teaching a System of Punctuation
Teaching Punctuation to Advanced Writers: Meyer

Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool: Dawkins

(OPTIONAL) Point Counterpoint: Teaching Punctuation as Information Management: Mann

(OPTIONAL) Interchanges: Dawkins and Mann

Section 3: Usage and Mechanics
Each member is to read all the articles. Each member will present only on some of the articles. Each member needs to understand how each presentation relates to the whole and how the concepts for the section relate to individual articles. Your individual grade will lower as you reveal you are not aware of how your section relates.

Group A1: Has Spoken Language Changed Written Language?
It Is to Be Hoped That Proper Grammar Can Endure: Carter

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Garber

Based Off of What? Curzan

I Enjoy You/Your Singing: Pronouns with Gerunds: Gaertner-Johnston

Possessive with Gerund: Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? Liberman

Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns: Hitchings

Group A2: Should Rules Change?
Research the rules for the following (in English and in other languages) and explain whether you think they should change or not: • punctuation with quotation marks • titling of texts • citing texts on Works Cited Page • capitalization

Group B: Pronoun Usage
Prounoun-Noun Agreement: Utah Valley State Writing Center

Using Pronouns Clearly: OWL Purdue U

English Singular "Their" Construction: Pinker

Tribunal of Use: Agreement in Indefinite Pronouns: Sklar

Pronoun Agreement Out the Window

Group C: The Politics of Pronoun Usage
Androcentrism in Prescriptive Grammar: Singular "They," Sex-Indefinite "He," and "He or She": Bodine

In Search of Gender Neutrality: Is Singular "They" a Cognitively Efficient Substitute for Generic "He"? Foertsch

The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun: wordpress blogger

Section 4: Formatting, Revision and Writing Process
Each member is to read all the articles. Each member will present only on some of the articles. Each member needs to understand how each presentation relates to the whole and how the concepts for the section relate to individual articles. Your individual grade will lower as you reveal you are not aware of how your section relates.

Group A: Basic Formatting
Sample First page of a research paper

Sample: works cited page: how to cite in the paper and how to write a citation

What You Need to Know about Plagiarism: Richman

MHS Student Handbook pages on Plagiarism

Group B: Basic Aspects of Writing
Freewriting: Elbow

Teaching Thinking by Teaching Writing: Elbow

Writing as a Mode of Learning: Emig

Group C: Basic Feedback
Turning Strengths into Strategies: Kolba and Crowell

Group D: Philosophy of Revision
Internal Revision: A Process of Discovery: Murray

Revision: Definitions and Distinctions: Haar

Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony: Maugham

Simplicity, Clutter, Style: Zinsser

Section 5: Stylistic Inventiveness (Artful Sentences)
Each member is to read all the articles. Each member will present only on some of the articles. Each member needs to understand how each presentation relates to the whole and how the concepts for the section relate to individual articles. Your individual grade will lower as you reveal you are not aware of how your section relates.

Conjunctions and Coordination Openers and Inversion Free Modifiers Parallelism Syntactic Symbolism

Section 6: Metaphor
Each member is to read all the articles. Each member will present only on some of the articles. Each member needs to understand how each presentation relates to the whole and how the concepts for the section relate to individual articles. Your individual grade will lower as you reveal you are not aware of how your section relates. Metaphors We Live By: Lakoff and Johnson Chapters 1-6

Page 9 Chapter 20

Metaphors, Take Flight: Pahlka

Section 7: Sublimity in Writing
On the Sublime