How to Approach the Assignment
Excellent speeches have changed the world. How or why do prepared remarks affect listeners so deeply? For this assignment, you’ll choose a speech to analyze, evaluating its rhetorical strategies to judge how successful or unsuccessful the author is in achieving his or her purpose. By breaking the text down into its parts, you can see what lines of reasoning connect facts and opinions, as well as understand what assumptions underlie the argument as a whole. Being able to ascertain whether or not a text “does its job” is important for students, workers, and citizens.
First, choose a speech.
The speech should be from one of the two websites below.
Choose a topic, historical period, or writer you feel strongly about.
Or choose something you’re open minded about–the better to assess the speaker’s persuasive strategies.
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