Thinking, Speaking, Writing: Teaching Argument and Oral Rhetoric

I.  Introduction

    a) Oral Rhetoric: Public Speech as Argument

        i) Franklin D. Roosevelt "Date Which Will Live in Infamy" (Pearl Harbor Speech)

        ii) George W. Bush 9/11 Speech

        iii) Lou Gehrig "I am the luckiest man alive" speech (1939)

        iv) Pride of the Yankees (fictional version of Gehrig Speech)

        v) Notes

II. Classical and Rogerian Argument

        1) Notes

        2) Using Carl Rogers' Communication Theories in the Composition Classroom Maxine Hairston

            Rhetoric Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Sep., 1982), pp. 50-55 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

            Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/465557

        3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4z-a8IJ99g “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank Stockton

III. Argument Unit

        1) Notes

IV.  Model for Rogerian Argument