Tier IV · Ars persuadendi

Rhetoric

140 lessons
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Persuasion as a discipline. Ethos, pathos, and logos; the five canons; stasis theory; the Toulmin model; the competitive debate formats and how to flow a round; and the four-step refutation that answers the warrant rather than the words.

Unit 1 · The Rhetorical Situation

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  2. Speaker, Audience, Subject, OccasionNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. KairosNot started · 9 minBegin
  4. The Three GenresNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Reading a Situation Before DraftingNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 2 · Ethos, Pathos, Logos

  1. EthosNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. PathosNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. LogosNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. All Three at OnceNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Which Appeal Is Doing the Work?Not started · 11 minBegin

Unit 3 · The Five Canons

  1. Five Canons as a Sequence of WorkNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. InventionNot started · 9 minBegin
  3. ArrangementNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. StyleNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Memory and DeliveryNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 4 · The Parts of an Oration

  1. Six Parts, and What Each Is ForNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. The ExordiumNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. The NarratioNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. The PartitioNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Confirmatio and RefutatioNot started · 11 minBegin
  6. The PeroratioNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 5 · Invention and the Topics

  1. Invention Is a SearchNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. The Common TopicsNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. Running the Topics on a MotionNot started · 12 minBegin
  4. The EnthymemeNot started · 12 minBegin
  5. Example and MaximNot started · 11 minBegin
  6. AmplificationNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 6 · Stasis

  1. Stasis: Finding the Real QuestionNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. Conjecture and DefinitionNot started · 12 minBegin
  3. QualityNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. ProcedureNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Shifting the StasisNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 7 · The Toulmin Model

  1. The Toulmin WarrantNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. BackingNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. The QualifierNot started · 9 minBegin
  4. The RebuttalNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Field-DependenceNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. Mapping a Real ArgumentNot started · 12 minBegin

Unit 8 · Kinds of Argument

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  2. Argument from SignNot started · 9 minBegin
  3. Cause to Effect, Effect to CauseNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Argument from AuthorityNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Argument from ConsequencesNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. Precedent and DefinitionNot started · 11 minBegin
  7. A FortioriNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 9 · The Progymnasmata I — The Elementary Exercises

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  2. FableNot started · 9 minBegin
  3. NarrativeNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. ChreiaNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. ProverbNot started · 9 minBegin
  6. RefutationNot started · 11 minBegin
  7. ConfirmationNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 10 · The Progymnasmata II — The Advanced Exercises

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  2. Encomium and VituperationNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. ComparisonNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. ImpersonationNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. DescriptionNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. ThesisNot started · 10 minBegin
  7. Defense or Attack of a LawNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 11 · Resolutions and Burdens

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  2. Propositions of FactNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. Propositions of ValueNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Propositions of PolicyNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Burden of Proof, Rejoinder, and ClashNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. Presumption and the Prima Facie CaseNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 12 · Case Architecture

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  2. ObservationsNot started · 9 minBegin
  3. Contention and SubpointNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. The TaglineNot started · 9 minBegin
  5. Building a Prima Facie CaseNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 13 · Lincoln–Douglas

  1. What a Value Debate AsksNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. The Value PremiseNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. The CriterionNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. Value ClashNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Philosophical Grounding, Honestly DoneNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 14 · Policy Debate

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  2. TopicalityNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. InherencyNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Harms and SignificanceNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. SolvencyNot started · 11 minBegin
  6. The DisadvantageNot started · 11 minBegin
  7. Counterplans, Fiat, and the KritikNot started · 12 minBegin

Unit 15 · The Other Formats

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  2. ParliamentaryNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. Congressional DebateNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. World SchoolsNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Choosing the Register the Format WantsNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 16 · Flowing

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  2. NotationNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. Roadmap and SignpostingNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Tracking an Argument Across SpeechesNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. The Dropped ArgumentNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 17 · Refutation, Line by Line

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  2. They SayNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. But, and BecauseNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. ThereforeNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Line by LineNot started · 11 minBegin
  6. Extending and Cross-ApplyingNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 18 · Turns and Impact Calculus

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  2. Link Turn and Impact TurnNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. Impact CalculusNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. Weighing Two ImpactsNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. The Voting IssueNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 19 · Weighing a Source

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  2. InterestNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. CurrencyNot started · 9 minBegin
  4. Primary and SecondaryNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Two Sources in ConflictNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 20 · Evidence Ethics

  1. The CardNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. Cutting a CardNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. Out of ContextNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. ParaphraseNot started · 9 minBegin
  5. Clipping and FabricationNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. The Provenance of a QuotationNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 21 · Memory and Delivery

  1. The Method of LociNot started · 10 minBegin
  2. RateNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. Projection, Articulation, Emphasis, and the PauseNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Extemporaneous, Manuscript, ImpromptuNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Delivery as Part of the ArgumentNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 22 · Schemes: Figures of Arrangement

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  2. AntithesisNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. Chiasmus and AntimetaboleNot started · 11 minBegin
  4. Anaphora and EpistropheNot started · 10 minBegin
  5. Asyndeton and PolysyndetonNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. Isocolon, Tricolon, and ParallelismNot started · 10 minBegin

Unit 23 · Tropes and Figures of Thought

  1. Metaphor and Simile as ArgumentNot started · 11 minBegin
  2. Metonymy and SynecdocheNot started · 10 minBegin
  3. Litotes and HyperboleNot started · 10 minBegin
  4. Erotema and HypophoraNot started · 11 minBegin
  5. Praeteritio and AporiaNot started · 10 minBegin
  6. Irony and ApostropheNot started · 11 minBegin

Unit 24 · A Whole Case, Start to Finish

  1. From Motion to CaseNot started · 12 minBegin
  2. Writing the Other Side FirstNot started · 11 minBegin
  3. Reading a Round Off a FlowNot started · 12 minBegin
  4. The Speech You Would Actually GiveNot started · 12 minBegin

Unit 25 · Style Above the Word

  1. The Three Levels of StyleNot started · 9 minBegin
  2. The Periodic and the LooseNot started · 9 minBegin
  3. Subordination Places the WeightNot started · 9 minBegin
  4. The Paragraph Is a MoveNot started · 9 minBegin
  5. Rhythm and the ClimaxNot started · 10 minBegin