Styles of Argument/Rhetoric: Satire

First, your analysis paper is due on Tuesday 10/21 and is worth 100 points. Bring it to class, typed and ready to turn in.

Now, we turn our attention to the way people make arguments in our society (in and beyond the Academy).

We start with one of my favorites--satire and other creative modes for making one's point.


Read: Bachelder's "A Soldier Upon A Hard Campaign" From The Believer. Oct. 2004.
Read: "Bush Calls For Panic". From the The Onion, Oct. 15, 2008.
Read: Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" from the West Valley College website.

And Watch this and this.