*Please note that there are PPs and additional materials for COMT330 on my web site on the "about Rhetoric" page and then go to "Rhetoric Aids."

     *Course Syllabus

The following items are resources for the study of rhetoric:

*Note:  By going to www.google.com and typing in a name or concept concerning rhetoric can bring marvelous results.

*Free Speech Dialogue:

1. John Peters:  "Courting the Abyss" An Introduction
2. PP on Peters
3. Supreme Court Link
4. Questions for Digestion and Dialogue

2.  Rhetoric Resources
     Rhetoric and Other Disciplines

3.  Gorgias Websites:
     Gorgias Resource Page

4.  Plato Websites and Study Helps:
     Diagram of Plato's Gorgias
     Comparing Gorgias with Phaedrus
     Plato:  Exploring His Dialogues
     Perseus Project

5.  Aristotle:
     Aristotle's Rhetoric

6.  Article by Dorothy Sayers:
     The Lost Tools of Learning

7.  Article by Barry Brummett:
     Barry Brummett Paper

9.  Richard Weaver:

     Weaver on Phaedrus
     Richard Weaver and The Rhetoric of Social Science
     Slide Show on Weaver Chapter 8.

10.Contemporary Rhetoric:
     Hannah Arendt:  For a couple of readings click here and here.

11.Propaganda:
     Click here and here for 2 articles on propaganda

12.A New Rhetoric:  A Universal Rhetoric
     Chaim Perelman

13.Some Additional Rhetoric Materials and Case Studies:
     Click here for a copy of I Kings 3:16ff
     Click here for a persuasive appeal:  Erring Letter
     Click here for article on "Beyond Persuasion."

      Click here for a copy of the "Whose Woods These      Are"by Gearhardt