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Each of these units is complete – including, in most cases, a theme
or topic, rationale, class plans, informal and formal assignments, evaluation
forms, student reading lists, and citations for additional suggested readings.
They can be executed as they are designed, altered to fit your needs,
or simply plundered for ideas. They can be used as independent units,
or in some cases, expanded into an entire themed class.
NOTE: use these units ONLY for the
courses designated.
Using the Assignments
The assignment and evaluation pages are not designed to be printed directly
off of this website and distributed to students. They should instead be
cut and pasted into a Word document and adapted by individual instructors.
Remember these units and assignments might be used by many of the instructors
in the 200+ GER Rhetoric classes that are taught each year. Making a distinctive,
but appropriate, requirement or two can discourage plagiarism.
Use all of the assignments as resources. Even if you are not going to
use the entire unit, each of these assignments and class activities can
serve as examples for analysis, mapping, advocacy, writing, and speaking.
Some of the units include evaluation sheets. They should not be used
as checklists to grade formal assignments. They might be used as an outline
for offering more substantive written or typed commentary about the student
project. If you choose to use these evaluation sheets, please adapt them
to your own instruction style, goals, and ethos.
Using the Readings
Readings come from three sources: an approved reader, an approved tradebook,
and/or compilations of readings from multiple sources in a course pack.
You can get instructor copies of readers and (often) tradebooks at no
cost from their respective publishers. Check the Rhetoric department handbook
or office staff (Cindi Stevens) for address information. Coursepacks have
been copyright cleared and are available for you and students under the
last name "Gross" at Zephyr's on Washington St. and Dubuque
St., downtown Iowa City (319-351-3500). They cost about $20.
Many of the units suggest some advanced readings that instructors can
use in order to prepare. If you want to assign optional or additional
readings, you must submit the appropriate permission form (see Cindi Stevens).
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