Your assignment for Friday is to read all the questions that appear in the class blogs and respond to three of them. Please go back to your own blog as well, and, to the degree that you can, add to the responses that your classmates have left on your blog. In your responses, please make direct reference to passages or ideas from Gorgias.
We'll begin reading Aristotle for next week, and as we do, we'll add to our discussion of the ethical issues surrounding rhetoric some technical issues. That is, we'll start exploring some basic terminology around rhetoric that we'll need to understand about over the course of the semester. To that end, for Monday's class, please read the Kennedy's Introduction and Chapters 1-8 of Book I for Monday. Come to class with notes and questions (you don't need to post those to the blog this time, just have them with you.)
Also by Monday, please post to your blog one text from the present presidential campaign, either embedded or as a link. This can be the written text of a speech, a campaign ad, something connected to one of the National Conventions, or anything else connected to the campaign that you find interesting. In your blog entry, please explain why you chose it.
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