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For New Instructors

Rhetoric Basics and Teaching Ideas
The Speaking Center Instructor Materials:	Basic Speech Assignments: • Analyzing positions in a controversy rhetorically • Describing controversies in terms of multiple perspectives • Advocating positions responsibly
Writing Center "Help with Controversies" Page for Rhetoric Students:	Basic Essay Assignments: Analyzing, Describing, Advocating
Need a plan for your first week? Here are some suggestions:	First Week
Want some games to play during that first week?	Games
Looking for some rhetorical analysis basics? Try	Rhetorical Analysis
What are logos, ethos, and pathos?	Rhetorical Triangle; example: Ad Analysis
What does "describing a controversy" mean?	Describing a Controversy; example: Exercise
What are logical fallacies?	Logical Fallacies (or here; or here)
How do you explain claims, reasons, and evidence?	Claim, reason, evidence
Need to get students thinking about audience? Try	Scenarios Activity
How can students practice impromptu speaking?	Three Impromptu Speaking Exercises
What are some tips for student-led discussion?	• Student-Led Discussion • Or, try student-led discussion as a Major Speech Assignment
Using Multimedia Texts:	• Rhetorically Analyzing a Web Site • Rhetorically Analyzing Advertisements
Speech and Essay Workshops (Peer Reviews)	Sample forms for: • Essay Workshops 1 2 • Speech Workshops 1
Grading Major Assignments	Sample rubrics for: • Speech Assignment Grading 1 2 • Essay Assignment Grading 1 2
An advanced theory of Rhetorical Analysis:	The Toulmin Model of Argumentation
Questions about the vocabulary of classical rhetoric? See	The Forest of Rhetoric

Units
How to Use the Units, Assignments, and Readings
Course	Length	Unit	Author	Required Texts
10:001 or 10:003	5 weeks	Cultural Appreciation, Cultural Appropriation: Mapping the Place of "Others" in Popular and Museum Culture	Kate Cady	• In Context (reader) + course pack
10:001 or 10:003	5 weeks	Controversies of Space and Place	Leslie Hahner	• In Context (reader)
10:002 or 10:003	4 weeks	Rhetorics of Portraits: Controversies of Representation	Jennifer Getting Jameslyn	• Convergences (reader)
10:002 or 10:003	5 weeks	Cults and Controversy	Mary Hayes	• Misunderstanding Cults • Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion • Kierkegaard for Beginners
10:002 or 10:003	7 weeks	The Myth of the Model Family	Heal	• Rereading America (reader)
10:002 or 10:003	4 weeks	A Sense of the "Other": Perspectives on America's Ethnic Diversity and the Challenge of Multiculturalism	Patrick Oray	• Rereading America (reader)
10:002 or 10:003	5 weeks	History, Memory & Advocacy	Tom Oates	• Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy
10:002 or 10:003	6 weeks	Christian Science, Euthanasia, and the Rhetoric of Suffering	Wes Kisting	• course pack