All students have the opportunity to add up to 15 points to their midterm raw score through this midterm supplement. Each of the five prompts below is worth up to 3 points. Each prompt likely requires several paragraphs to earn full credit. There is no potential grade penalty associated with this supplement. Supplements are due via emailed attachment to tirrellj@uncw.edu by April 1.
- Find a case in the news where someone is demonstrating Richards's proper meaning superstition. This might appear, for example, in a dispute about the proper meaning of a term and its subsequent implications. Describe the case and discuss how it fits Richards's criteria for this concept.
- Grassi worked to revive the Humanist tradition in contemporary society. Identify where you see Humanist principles operating in culture today. Discuss how the things you identify fit with Grassi's conception of Humanism.
- Identify an instance when you have had to communicate much the same content to two different particular audiences. Using Perelman's rhetoric, discuss how your message was different for the separate particular audiences in terms of starting points, presence, techniques of argumentation, etc.
- Find a specific argument being made in the political arena and map it out according to the Toulmin Model (grounds, warrant, claim, backing, modality, rebuttal). Discuss why this argument succeeds or fails.
- For Weaver a tyrannizing image is an ideal for a particular culture and operates through uncontested ultimate terms. UNCW is a definable culture; make a case for what you think our tyrannizing image is, and identify its corresponding god and devil terms.
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