• Course syllabus
• Look over course website in Canvas
• Getting Started lesson
• Lesson 1 commentary
• Zarefsky: pp. xxxi–xxxii; Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 1–43)
• Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (January, 1968) 1–14

• Any Super Bowl commercial available online

• Complete the Canvas Conversations Tool Practice activity.
• Begin working on Criticism of Criticism Speech video.
• Submit Lesson 1 Assignment.

Note: Lesson 2 submissions will not be graded until the Getting Started assignments have been submitted.

• Lesson 2 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 1 (review The Rhetorical Situation section), Chapter 4, and Chapter 6
• Speech assignments: Rhetorical Situation Speech and Cultural Commonplaces Speech
• Mister, Steven M.“Reagan’s Challenger Tribute: Combining Generic Constraints and Situational Demands.”Central States Speech Journal 37 (1986) 158–185.

• Ronald Reagan, The Challenger Address

• Upload Criticism of Criticism Speech video.
• Submit Lesson 2 Assignment.

• Lesson 3 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 5 and Chapter 16
• Chuang, Lisa M., and John P. Hart. “Suburban American Punks and the Musical Rhetoric of Green Day’s ‘Jesus of Suburbia.’”Communication Studies 59.3 (July 2008): 183–201

• Robert F. Kennedy, Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Criticism of Criticism” speeches given by classmates (available on YouSeeU)

• Submit Lesson 3 Assignment.
• Participate in Lesson 3 Discussion.

• Lesson 4 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and Chapter 14
• Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. “Justifying The War In Iraq: What The Bush Administration’s Uses Of Evidence Reveal.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10.2 (Summer 2007): 249–273

• George W. Bush, Address to the Nation: September 20, 2001

• Submit Lesson 4 Assignment.

• Lesson 5 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 8
• Ivie, Robert L.“Tragic Fear in the Rhetorical Republic: American Hubris and the Demonization of Saddam Hussein.”Conference Proceedings—National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference On Argumentation) (January 1995): 489–492
• Ryan, Halford Ross. “Roosevelt’s First Inaugural: A Study of Technique.” Quarterly Journal Of Speech 65.2 (April 1979): 137
• Kenny, Edward B. “Another Look at Kennedy’s Inaugural Address.” Today’s Speech 13.4 (November 1965): 17–19
• Frank, David A. “Obama’s Rhetorical Signature: Cosmopolitan Civil Religion in the Presidential Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14.4 (Winter 2011): 605–630

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address
• Barack Hussein Obama, First Inaugural Address

• Submit Lesson 5 Assignment.

• Lesson 6 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapters 9, 10, and 11
• Lou Gehrig,“Farewell to Baseball”

• Submit Lesson 6 Assignment.

• Lesson 7 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 12 and Chapter 3
• Abraham Lincoln,“The Gettysburg Address”
• Leff, Michael, and Jean Goodwin. “Dialogic Figures and Dialectical Argument In Lincoln’s Rhetoric.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 3.1 (Spring 2000): 59–69

• Submit Lesson 7 Assignment.

• Rhetorical Situation Speech and Outline Instructions

• Submit Rhetorical Situation Speech and Outline.
• Begin working on Peer Review (due by the end of Lesson 8).

• Lesson 8 commentary
• Zarefsky: Chapter 14
• Solomon, Martha.“With firmness in the right”: The Creation of Moral Hegemony in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural.” Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 32–37
• Hansen, Andrew C. “Dimensions of Agency in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 37.3 (August 2004): 223–254
• Terrill, Robert E. “Unity and Duality in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 95.4 (November 2009): 363–386
• Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones. “One Dream: Barack Obama, Race, and The American Dream.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14.1 (Spring 2011): 125–154

• Abraham Lincoln, The Second Inaugural Address
• Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (March 2008)

• Submit Lesson 8 Assignment.
• Peer Review for Rhetorical Situation Speech due.

• Lesson 9a commentary
• Kuypers, Jim A. “The Rhetorical River.” Southern Communication Journal 73.4 (September 2008): 350–358
• Fisher, Walter R. “Genre: Concepts and Applications in Rhetorical Criticism.” Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC 44.4 (Fall1980): 288–299
• Fisher, Walter R. “Narration as A Human Communication Paradigm: The Case Of Public Moral Argument.” Communication Monographs 51.1 (March 1984): 1

• Submit Lesson 9a Assignment.

• Lesson 9b commentary
• Hume, Janice. “Memory Matters: The Evolution of Scholarship in Collective Memory and Mass Communication.” Review of Communication 10.3 (July 2010): 181–196
• Fisher, Walter R. “Clarifying The Narrative Paradigm.” Communication Monographs 56.1 (March 1989): 55; Hochmuth, Marie.“Kenneth Burke and The ‘New Rhetoric.’.”Quarterly Journal of Speech 38.2 (April 1952): 133
• Griffin, Leland M. “The Rhetoric of Historical Movements.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 38.2 (April 1952): 184
• Kahl, Mary L., and Michael Leff. “The Rhetoric of War and Remembrance: An Analysis of President Bill Clinton’s 1994 D-Day Discourses.” Qualitative Research Reports In Communication 7.1 (October 2006): 15–21
• Eric S. Jenkins (2014) The Modes of Visual Rhetoric: Circulating Memes as Expressions, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 100:4, 442–466
• Fay, Isabel, and Jim A. Kuypers. “Transcending Mysticism and Building Identification Through Empowerment of the Rhetorical Agent: John F. Kennedy’s Berlin Speeches on June 26, 1963.” Southern Communication Journal 77.3 (July 2012): 198–215.

• John F. Kennedy,“Ich bin Ein Berliner”
• Ronald Reagan,“Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate”

• Submit Lesson 9b Assignment.

• Lesson 10 commentary
• Hilary Benn’s Speech in Parliament
  • News articles online about the speech and about the debate
  • Full text of the speech

• Hillary Benn’s speech

• Submit Lesson 10 Assignment.

• Cultural Commonplaces Speech and Outline Instructions

• Submit Cultural Commonplaces Speech and Outline.
• Begin working on Peer Review (due by the end of Lesson 11).

• Lesson 11 commentary

• A speech available online (full text and video) of your choosing

• Submit Lesson 11 Assignment.
• Peer Review for Cultural Commonplaces Speech due.
• Complete SRTE.