This document provides the schedule and assignments for Project 4 of an English course on rhetorical style. It lists the dates when in-class work and homework assignments are due, including scaffolding work, style maps, and the final imitative essay and memo. Readings are assigned from books on performing prose and analyzing style to help students find motives of style and structure their own imitative essays using style maps. Workshops will be held to provide feedback on drafts of the imitative essay before the final papers are due.

1. ENGL 309 | Rhetorical Style pg 1
PROJECT 4 SCHEDULE
Imitative Essay
All scaffolding work (homework assignments) is due before class on the date
due. Late assignments will lose one letter grade (or the equivalent number of
points) per day.
Unless otherwise indicated, all readings and links are on the BbLearn Project 4
page.
Date In Class Work Due
Tuesday,
3/3
Introduce Project 4: Imitative
Essay
Introductory imitation exercise
Thursday
3/5
Finding motives of style in
essays
The situation and the story
Read:
• Excerpts from Vivian Gornick, “The
Situation and the Story”
• Susan Orlean, “Lifelike”
Tuesday,
3/10
Deviation, physical/social
footing
Presentation of essays
Introduce Style Map assignment
Post:
Situation and story paragraph on the essay
you were assigned
Read:
Performing Prose, Ch. 3 and 4
Thursday,
3/12
Tropes and Schemes Read:
Performing Prose, Ch. 6 and 7
Spring Break
Tuesday,
3/24
Tropes and schemes quiz
Work on style maps
Read:
Performing Prose, Ch. 8 – 10
Study for quiz
Thursday,
3/26
Using your style map to
structure your essay
Style maps due before class time
Tuesday,
3/31
Polishing the imitative essay

2. ENGL 309 | Rhetorical Style pg 2
Sentence-level imitation
exercise
Writing the memo
Thursday,
4/2
Workshop completed imitative
essays
Bring hard copy of completed draft of imitative
essay and memo to class
Sunday,
4/5
Imitative Essay and Memo due by end-of-day