Week 2 - Rhetoric's Rules of 3
Overview
This week and next we're going to talk about some of rhetoric's rules of three. These are basic concepts in Rhetoric, and they underlie the course text, Thank You for Arguing.
You might have heard of the three strategies for persuasion--Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, which will be the topic next week. But you probably have not heard of the three genres or types of oratory, Forensic, Demonstrative, and Deliberative.
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Each of these types is based on different situations that called for rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome--the courtroom, the public ceremony, and the political assembly. Each also has a representative verb tense and a type of issue. See the chart.
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Reading
- Thank You, Chapters 1-3. Here is a pdf of these chapters in case you haven't gotten your book yet.
- Online only: Persuasive Writing Lecture 1 -- Three Tenses and Three Genres (click on this title)
Activities
- Online only: After reading Persuasive Writing Lecture 1 and Chapters 1-3 in Thank You, participate in discussion 2.1 in Blackboard. Start by Thursday, January 31, 11:59 p.m., and complete by Sunday, Feb. 3, 11:59 pm
- Online only: Participate in a check-in Tuesday discussion in Bb.
- Read the assignment we're working toward, which is a demonstrative argument. It's under the Major Assignments tab here in Weebly. Start thinking about what you'd write about.
Note: the on-campus students are always welcome to read the lectures too. They are designed to replace the in-class activities.