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Advanced Composition

Theme: Voice, Composition, and Rhetoric

The rhetorical triangle (speaker-audience-message) is important for understanding how to

compose a compelling argument. In many cases, we tend to focus most heavily on audience and

message. However, the concept of speaker/writer/voice is also integral to understanding whatmakes an argument persuasive and how arguments come to be effective. In this course, we willfocus on the ³speaker/writer,´ as well as concepts that relate to the effectiveness of the

speaker/writer including ethos, perceived authenticity, authority, eloquence, appearance, andother determining factors. Because 2012 is an election year, we will also have ample

opportunity to analyze various kinds of political discourses that attempt to persuade us.Beginning with Jackie Jones Royster¶s seminal essay, ³When the First Voice You Hear is Not

Your Own,´ we will undertake an examination of how the speaker/writer affects not only themessage, but also the audience, and an argument¶s effectiveness. We will also work on

composing effective and extended research arguments, rhetorical analyses, and multimedia projects.

Date Assignment 

Week One (January 17th) Introduction to the Course; Booth, Section 1, 1-28;

Royster, When The First Voice You Hear is Not Your Own

(CW)

Week Two (January 24th) Booth, Section 2, 29-50; Warner, Publics and

Counterpublics (CW); Witherspoon, Speeches (479);Sheen, Speeches (501); Lucas, The Renaissance of 

American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical

Criticism (CW)

Week Three (January 31st ) Booth, Section 2, 51-102; Pericles, Speeches (41); Morris,

Speeches (48); Webster, Speeches (51); Stevenson,Speeches (79); McCarthy, Speeches (162); Murphy, OurMission and Our Moment: George W. Bush and September

11th (CW)

Week Four (February 7th) Butler, Antigones Claim (CW); Booth, Section 3, 104-127; Antigone, Excerpts (CW)

Short Writing Assignment Due

Week Five (February 14th) THE WEEK OF LINCOLN! Booth, Section 3, 130-151;Speeches by and about Lincoln, Speeches, (59, 195, 210,

303, 493, 894); Wilson, The Paradox of LincolnsRhetorical Leadership (CW); Watson, Ordeal by Fire

(CW)Week Six (February 21st ) Booth, Section 3, 152-170; Speeches by and about MLK, Jr.,

Speeches (229, 560, 567); King, Letter from Birmingham

Jail (CW); Vail, The Integrative Rhetoric of Martin

Luther Kings I Have a Dream Speech (CW)

Week Seven (March 6th) Lorde, 6-52; Astor, Speeches (606); Stanton, Speeches

(681); Truth, Speeches (684)

Short Writing Assignment Due

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Week Eight (March 13th) SPRING BREAK 

Week Nine (March 20th) Lorde, 114-123, 134-175I will be at a conference, and so we will be holding our

classes exclusively through our online forums. Use this

week for research and catching up!

Week Ten (March 27th) Lorde, 53-80, 124-133; Booth, Section 4, 171-212Week Eleven (April 3rd) Lorde 81-113, 176-end; Booth, Section 4, 214-248; Long,

Speeches (696); Smith, Speeches (722); Bhutto, Speeches(758)

Short Writing Assignment Due

 Annotated Bibliography Due April 5t h 

Week Twelve (April 10th) Booth, Section 4/5, 249-276; Sagan, Speeches (739); Gore,

Speeches (751); Kass, Speeches (646); Pasteur, Speeches(535); Foss, Karen A. ³Harvey Milk and the Queer 

Rhetorical Situation: A Rhetoric of Contradiction´ (CW)

Week Thirteen (April 17th) Obama, A More Perfect Union (CW); Clinton, Womens

Rights are Human Rights (CW); Rohrer, Judy. ³Black Presidents, Gay Marriage, and Hawaiian Sovereignty:Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Obama´ (CW)

Week Fourteen (April 24th) Research Projects, Presentations

Final Projects Due