Rhetoric Prof
A channel for the discussion of rhetoric, public speaking, and how rhetorical thinking can affect your life
Rhetorical Style
Style -- Editing
Illustrative Examples
Analogical Arguments
Audience
Delivery
What is Public Opinion
Tests of Evidence
How to Arrange a Speech
Topoi
Stasis
Surveying Public Opinion
Topic Selection
postmorte(r)m
Black Light Reading Hour: Fallacies by Hamblin
Close Reading : What Is An Author? by Foucault
Controversy Speech Examples
Close Reading: The New Rhetoric, Premises of Argumentation (Secs. 15-20)
Close Reading: The New Rhetoric, The Universal Audience (Secs.6-7)
Close Reading: Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility, Part 2
Close Reading: Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in threAge of its Mechanical Reproducibility
Close Reading: Toulmin, The Layout of Argument
Close Reading: Argument as Inquiry and Argument as Persuasion
Close Reading: Deduction, Induction, Hypothesis (Part 2)
Close Reading: Deduction, Induction, Hypothesis (Part 1)
Close Reading: The New Rhetoric (Secs. 15-20)
Close Reading: Why Do Humans Reason? by Mercier and Sperber
Close Reading: Critical Theory in Dark Times by Wendy Brown
Close Reading: "Gender is Burning" by Judith Butler
Close Reading: Thick Description by Geertz