1. RWS 100: Charting Exercise!

2. Homework for Thursday:
Read pages 22, in your Course Reader
Come prepared to discuss Rhetorical Strategies

3. Stanley Kubrick

4. Mr. Kubrick’s Filmography
Day of the Fight (1951)
Flying Padre (1951)
Fear and Desire (1953)
The Seafarers (1953)
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)
2001:A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

5. (Watch clip)

6. Charting Game Rules
Each question, two teams will be asked a question. The first team has the first chance to answer.
If they do not get the question correctly, the second team can answer.
Each question is worth 10 points total, but may be broken down into smaller questions worth less points.

7. The members of the winning team will all receive +3 on their second paper.

8. Team #1 Brianna Bigornia Jenna Bisla Christopher Kamikawa Amber Simes
Bryan Verkler

9. Team #2 John Cossette Rigoberto Macedo Gregory Royse Rosario Tornabene
Sarah Tucker

10. Team #3 Alisha Arco Gianna Cecchini Angelica Gamez Chloe Jorgensen
Brianne Sheridan

11. Team #4 Ryan Bennett Stephanie Bradley Paul Fuerte Jessica Kajerian
Blake Nuesca

12. Team #5 Kaylani Brown Audrey Espinosa Jasmine Evans Jarod Heise
Josue Jauregui

13. Team 1 vs Team 2
What type of evidence is Carr providing in paragraph #3? (5 points) “I think I know what’s going on…”
Personal Anecdote
What are the three things you must consider when evaluating evidence? (5 points)
Sufficient? Credible? Relevant?

14. Team 3 vs Team 4
There are four claims in paragraph #4. Only three are relevant to Carr’s project. What are they? (4,3,3 points) “For me, as others…”
“The Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.”
“Media are not just passive channels of information.”
“And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation…My mind now expects…”
Claim that is not relevant to his argument, but is used to establish context: “The advantages of having immediate access…are many.”

15. Team 5 vs Team 1
Carr begins and ends his argument by referencing the scene in What type of rhetorical appeal is he using? (5 points) Through this allusion, how is he attempting to affect his intended audience? (5 points)
Ethos
He wants to scare and unnerve his audience with the potential implications of Internet use.

16. Team 2 vs Team 3
In paragraph 18, there is a new sub-claim, what is it? (5) What larger claim is it meant to support? (5)
“When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image.”
The Internet is hurting our ability to concentrate. That the Internet “scatter[s] our attention and diffuse[s] our attention.”

17. Team 4 vs Team 5
In paragraph 15, there are two types of evidence. Name them. (10)
Historical evidence
Expert testimony

18. Team 2 vs Team 1
Staying with paragraph 15, the historical evidence and the expert testimony are being used to support what sub-claim? (5) What larger claim does that sub-claim support? (5) (tiny hint: you don’t have to look far…)
[14] As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”—the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities—we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.
[15] The human brain is almost infinitely malleable.

19. Team 4 vs Team 3
In paragraph 31, what is the type of evidence that Carr is using? (3) What is the purpose of this paragraph? (7)
Historical evidence
He is demonstrating that he is aware that he could be wrong. It helps his credibility (ethos) to show that the historical evidence may complicate his position. He is also arguing that although the advantages of the printing press were good, many of the criticisms of the printing press turned out to be true.

20. Team 1 vs Team 5
In paragraph 24, what two types of evidence does Carr use to prove his claim that Google’s headquarters is the “Internet’s high church” which is based on “Taylorism?” (5) If you were evaluating this evidence, what should you do? (5)
Expert testimony (“chief executive” Eric Schmidt) & Statistical or numerical evidence
Verify that Eric Schmidt really works at Google and do a background check on the Harvard Business Review

21. Team 3 vs Team 2
In paragraph 7, what type of evidence is Carr using? (3) How does this support Carr’s overall argument, and why might it not be necessarily relevant to that argument? (3,4)
Research Study
It demonstrates that we are reading differently…but it doesn’t necessarily prove that this new way of reading makes us “stupider.”

22. Team 5 vs Team 4
In paragraph 29, what evidence does Carr provide to support his claim that “Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link…It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.”? (10)
There is no evidence provided, but +5 if you found some that I missed.

23. Nice work!
Remember:
When you chart a text, make sure to identify the claims!
If you find evidence, make sure to identify what claim it’s supporting!
When evaluating evidence, always think in terms of how it will affect the audience!
Stanley Kubrick is the greatest film director of all-time.