12 Persuasion and Rhetoric

Lecture

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Exercises

Twenty-four items covering both Session 11 and Session 12. You write a misleading headline yourself and then take one apart, name the appeal doing the work in six short specimens, dig out the premise you supplied without noticing, and run the three questions on a politician who never answers the question. Most parts open with a worked example.

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Reading

Aristotle. (n.d.). Rhetoric, Book I, Chs. 1–2. (PDF) Required.