A reminder to myself that the best classes are those in which I talk less and my students do more.
- Agendas
- Class 01: WED SEP 04
- Class 02: MON SEP 09
- Class 03: WED SEP 11
- Class 04: MON SEP 16
- Class 05: WED SEP 18
- Class 06: MON SEP 23
- Class 07: WED SEP 25
- Class 08: MON SEP 30
- Class 09: WED OCT 02
- Class 10: MON 0CT 07
- Class 11: WED OCT 09
- Class 12: MON OCT 14
- Class 13: WED OCT 16
- Class 14: MON OCT 21
- Class 15: WED OCT 23
- Class 16: MON OCT 28
- Class 17: WED OCT 30
- Class 18: MON NOV 04
- Class 19: WED NOV 06
- Class 20: MON NOV 11
- Class 21: WED NOV 13
- Class 22: MON NOV 18
- Class 23: WED NOV 20
- Class 24: MON NOV 25
- Class 25: WED NOV 27
- Class 26: MON DEC 02
- Class 27: WED DEC 04
- MON DEC 09: Portfolio Doublecheck
- Deadlines
- 09/15 Elevator Instructions
- 09/24 Purposeful Summary Task
- 09/25 Hypothesis Conference
- 10/01 Proposal+5
- 10/07 Claims Task: PTSD
- 10/15 Definition/Categorical Argument
- 10/30 Visual Rhetoric Argument
- 11/10 Causal Argument
- 11/17 Robust Subjects and Verbs
- 11/21 The Banned 2nd Person
- 11/24 Rebuttal Argument
- 12/02 Research Paper
- 12/04 Annotated Bibliography
- 12/09 Self-Reflective Statement
- 12/09 The Portfolio
- Grammar Basics
- Exercises
- Lectures
- Visual Rhetoric—Static Image
- My Counterintuitive Journal
- Don Cheadle
- Why the Challenger Exploded
- Wield Your Statistics
- Advertising Failure
- Coin with Two Heads
- The “Give Directly” Hypothesis
- My Ultrasound Was Rape
- Specific Claims
- Counterintuitive Predictions
- The Headline
- The Opposite of a Black Sneaker
- Lessons in Rhetoric
- Lecture: Try To Say Something
- Ag-Gag Laws: A Resource
- Nuclear Power Rebuttal Argument
- Types of Causal Argument
- Cows and Chips
- Opposite of a Black Sneaker
- Summaries are Arguments
- Why We Still Have Polio
- (Hypo)Thesis
- How to Open
- Model: The Thai Life Insurance Ad
- Purposeful Summary
- Doubting Gravity
- Research Tips
- Card Hypothesis Puzzle
- Revision—Argument
- Revision—Rhetoric
- Revision—Mechanics
- Revision—Scholarship
- Revision—Proposals
- Magical Dependency
- Creating Empathy in Introductions
- Sort, Type, Kind
- Models
- A Price Too High, Text Only
- Model: The Thai Life Insurance Ad
- Class Notes: A Model
- Model Research Arguments
- Weak Suggestion of Independence
- Definition—davidbdale
- Help for Definitions
- References List Model
- Visual Argument: How Much Detail?
- Model Works Cited
- Definition Model: Do the Kids Have Standing?
- Model Paper 1. Christian Nation?
- Model Paper 2. Land of the Free?
- Model Paper 3. The Unscientific Method
- Model Paper 4. Dysregulated Students
- Model Paper 5. Blue Lives Matter
- Model Paper 6. Restandardized Tests
- Model Paper 7. The Liberation App
- Riddles
- Syllabus+
- Agenda Overflow 2024
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
