Course Description:

This course will focus on the art of persuasive speaking and writing, using pyrogymnasmata as a foundation for the rhetorical style. Students will follow the argumentation process to set up claims that are clearly worded using deductive and inductive reasoning to lay out their argument in concise and concrete linear terms. Throughout the course, students through critical analysis of selected literature will learn and practice in both oral and written forms the rules of clear, effective and influential speech. Students will learn not only the importance of the construction of the written work but the minutiae of delivery through the art of speech.