3. Agenda Class Description Language and Critical Standards Persuasion in our History

4. Class Description Assignments Getting the grade Learning by Doing

5. Canons of Rhetoric Invention ethos pathos logos Arrangement Style Delivery Memory

6. Burkean Analysis Wherever there is identification, there is communication Wherever there is communication there is persuasion

7. Burkean Analysis: The Dramatistic Pentad Act Scene Agent (actor) Purpose Agency

8. Persuasion in Our History Nation Nearly Founded on Argument How to respond to the Muslim halt to overland trade 1340 The African route Argument about the location of Asia

9. Persuasion in Our History Columbus’ argument from ego “admiral of the ocean sea” Viceroy of all claimed lands 10% of all revenues

11. Mercatur 1569

12. Development

13. The Pilgrims

14. The Purchase of Manhattan

15. Declaration Draft