| week # | topics | readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions |
Day 2 "Common Topics." Chapter 4 in Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. pp. 95-132. |
| 2 | Rhetoric, Invention, and Ethics |
Day 1 Plato. "Allegory." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 598-603. "Ancient Rhetorics." Chapter 1 in Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. pp. 1-35. Day 2 "Introduction." Chapter 1 in Ethics and College Student Life. pp. 1-11. "Academic Integrity." Chapter 2 in Ethics and College Student Life. pp. 12-30. |
| 3 | Rhetoric and Speeches | |
| 4 | Rhetoric and Ethics |
Day 1 "Sex, Relationships, and Power." Chapter 6 in Ethics and College Student Life. pp. 116-146. Day 2 "On Getting a Life." Chapter 8 in Ethics and College Student Life. pp. 173-194. |
| 5 | Ethical Analysis and Ethos |
Day 1 "Loyalty." Chapter 5 in Ethics and College Student Life. pp. 92-115. Mencken, H.L. "Portrait of an Ideal World." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 543-548. Sanders, Scott Russell. "Under the Influence." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 634-648. Day 2 "Ethical Proof." Chapter 6 in Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. pp. 163-204. Dillard, Annie. "Jest and Earnest." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 251-256. Gould, Stephen Jay. "Women's Brains." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 332-339. |
| 6 | Ethical Argument | |
| 7 | Pathos and Style |
Day 1 "Pathetic Proof." Chapter 7 in Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. pp. 205-220. King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 423-440. Day 2 "Style." Chapter 11 in Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. pp. 278-315. Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 60-63. Handout: Alice Walker's "Am I Blue?" - Walker, Alice. "Am I Blue?" In Writing Exploratory Essays. pp. 453-457. |
| 8 | Rhetorical Analysis |
Day 1 Walker, Alice. "Beauty." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 762-771. Baldwin, James. "Notes Native Son." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 70-90. |
| 9 | Rhetoric and Persuasion |
Day 1 Woolf, Virginia. "Death of the Moth." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 805-809. Dillard, Annie. "Living Like Weasels." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 245-251. Day 2 Handouts: Joy Williams' "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp," and Francis Bacon's "Four Idols." - Williams, Joy. "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp." In Writing Exploratory Essays. - Bacon, Francis. "Four Idols." In Writing Exploratory Essays . |
| 10 | Rhetoric and Satire |
Day 2 Swift, Jonathan. "A Modest Proposal." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 708-716. Handouts: Woody Allen's "My Speech to the Graduates," and Mark Twain's "Was the World Made for Man?" - Allen, Woody. "My Speech to the Graduates." In Writing Exploratory Essays, pp. 633-636. - Twain, Mark. "Was the World Made for Man?" In Writing Exploratory Essays. pp. 394-398. |
| 11 | Rhetorical Analysis |
Day 2 Franklin, Benjamin. "Arriving at Perfection." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 301-306. Lawrence, D.H. "On Ben Franklin's Virtues." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 473-477. Thoreau, Henry David. "Why I Went to the Woods." In One Hundred Great Essays. |
| 12 | Rhetorical Strategies |
Day 1 Marx, Karl, and Friederich Engels. "The Communist Manifesto." In One Hundred Great Essays. Machiavelli, Niccolo. "The Prince." In One Hundred Great Essays . Day 2 "Tolerance etc." Chapter 3 in Ethics in College Student Life. pp. 31-65. Hazlitt, William. "On the Pleasures of Hating." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 365-376. Porter, Katherine Anne. "The Necessary Enemy." In One Hundred Great Essays. pp. 603-608. |
| 13 | Rhetoric of Personal Essays | |
| 14 | Conclusion |
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