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Friday, October 31, 2008
Solicitations!
Hey All,
We're going to be planning events for the coming academic year shortly.
Book swaping is a great idea. Maybe we could also have a movie night (for example, I own Rocket Science, which seems to be a hit with the rhetoric/debate crowd).
Week of Nov. 9-15: Social event Week of Nov. 16-22: General meeting and Academic event Week of Nov. 23-29: Social event Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6: General meeting and Academic event (finals related)
Social events- movie and book swap sounds great. We are also luck enough to have some good indie theaters in berkeley that we could make trips to.
Academic events- I was thinking it would be fun to pick an author, text, or general topic familiar to our department and host an open discussion on it. Also, setting up a system for people to proof read each other's papers or maybe just have something online where we can post papers to be reviewed and commented on. During finals I think we should book rooms in the library specifically for rhetoricians and give people the opportunity to develop study groups for their class.
You know how wikipedia works with the edits? (you can edit it, and it keeps track of all the different drafts that have been edited, so if it's been edited 99 times, you can see 100 documents (the original and all 99 edits))
That might be a fun way to do paper editing with so knowledgeable a group.
Bookswap (bring a favorite, give it, get someone else's favorite)
ReplyDeleteBook Club (talk about books, social setting)
Book swaping is a great idea. Maybe we could also have a movie night (for example, I own Rocket Science, which seems to be a hit with the rhetoric/debate crowd).
ReplyDeletePossible schedule for the rest of the semester:
ReplyDeleteWeek of Nov. 9-15: Social event
Week of Nov. 16-22: General meeting and Academic event
Week of Nov. 23-29: Social event
Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6: General meeting and Academic event (finals related)
Social events- movie and book swap sounds great. We are also luck enough to have some good indie theaters in berkeley that we could make trips to.
Academic events- I was thinking it would be fun to pick an author, text, or general topic familiar to our department and host an open discussion on it. Also, setting up a system for people to proof read each other's papers or maybe just have something online where we can post papers to be reviewed and commented on.
During finals I think we should book rooms in the library specifically for rhetoricians and give people the opportunity to develop study groups for their class.
I wonder if we could set up paper wikis.
ReplyDeleteYou know how wikipedia works with the edits?
(you can edit it, and it keeps track of all the different drafts that have been edited, so if it's been edited 99 times, you can see 100 documents (the original and all 99 edits))
That might be a fun way to do paper editing with so knowledgeable a group.