The following are handouts I routinely use in my classes.

• Advice on Writing
• A Quick and Dirty Guide to Grammer Errers
• A Short and Highly Idiosyncratic History of Rhetoric
• Characteristics of Demagoguery
• Fallacies
• Notes Toward an Introduction to Plato
• Some issues about Gorgias
• Understanding Misunderstandings: How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis
• Ways to Get Suckered (Only while supplies last!)
• What I Emphasize in Grading

Sample Papers

• Holding the TAAS Accountable
• McCarthy Was Wrong

Past Courses

Fall 2017

• Rhetoric of Racism

Spring 2016

• Deliberating War

Fall 2013

• Deliberating War (PDF)
• Principles of Rhetoric (PDF)
• Syllabus for SP14 grad course (pdf)

Spring 2013

• Demagoguery (PDF)
• Racism (PDF)

Fall 2012

• Principles of Rhetoric (PDF)

Spring 2012

• Deliberating War (PDF)
• The Use and Abuse of Science in Public Policy Debates (PDF)

Fall 2011

• Principles of Rhetoric (PDF)
• Demagoguery (PDF)

Spring 2011

• Principles of Rhetoric (PDF)
• Deliberating War (PDF)

Fall 2010

• Principles of Rhetoric
• Deliberating War

Spring 2010

• History of Public Argument (PDF)
  • Calendar (PDF)
• Propaganda (PDF)
  • Calendar (PDF)

Fall 2009

• Demagoguery
  • Calendar (PDF)
• Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Theory (PDF)

Spring 2009

• Greatest Hits in Composition Studies (PDF)
• Demagoguery

Fall 2008

• Demagoguery (PDF)
  • Calendar (PDF)
• Rhetoric of Racism (PDF)
  • Calendar (PDF)

Spring 2008

• Demagoguery (PDF)
• Classical Rhetoric and Theorizing Argument (PDF)

Spring 2007

• Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing (PDF)
• Greatest Hits in Composition Studies (PDF)

Spring 2006

• Introduction to Rhetoric and Argumentation (PDF)
• Demagoguery (PDF)

Fall 2005

• Supervised Teaching in English (MW) (PDF)
• Supervised Teaching in English (TR) (PDF)

Spring 2005

• Censorship and Free Speech (PDF)
• Demagoguery (PDF)

Fall 2004

• Supervised Teaching in English (PDF)

Spring 2004

• Censorship and Free Speech (PDF)
• History of Public Argument (PDF)

Fall 2003

• Antebellum Rhetoric and Abolition (PDF)
• Demagoguery (PDF)

Spring 2003

• The Writing Process (PDF)

Fall 2002

• Rhetoric and Demagoguery (PDF)
• History of Public Argument (PDF)

Spring 2002

• Introduction to Rhetoric and Argumentation (PDF)

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