LibGuides: SPCH U201: Foundations in Oral Communication: Rhetorical Techniques

Websites with Speeches & Rhetoric Information

Rhetorical Terms
The following is an alphabetically arranged list of terms often used in rhetorical analysis.
Rhetorical Analysis
In this handout we will use the word rhetorician to refer to the author of a speech or document or to the creator of an advertisement, cartoon, or other visual work.
Studio Binder Blog on Persuasive Techniques
This advertising blog discusses persuasive techniques and offers several great examples.
Arguments
This handout from Texas A&M discusses what an argument is and how to write one.
American Rhetoric What is Rhetoric
This subpage of the American Rhetoric website discusses the various definitions of Rhetoric and offers some more insight to the general idea of rhetoric.

American RadioWorks - Say It Plain, Say It Loud
African American Speeches. Offers background information, transcripts, and audio.
American Rhetoric
Includes an online speech bank with video, audio, and transcripts.
Chronicling America - Historic Newspapers
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
American Rhetoric Top 100 Speeches made by Women
The History Place
Collection of great speaches
Presidential Speeches
From the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, this site features texts of major speeches from every president. Also includes audio and video of more recent presidential speeches.
So Just - Speeches on Social Justice
Welcome to So*Just, the ever-growing collection of historic speeches, songs, poetry, and manifestos on human rights and social justice.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
Year by Year - InfoPlease
News and Events Year-by-Year. Infoplease knows the value of having sources you can trust. Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with facts.

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | Rhetoric | The Nature of Writing

How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

Rhetorical Triangle

Aristotle taught that a speaker’s ability to persuade an audience is based on how well the speaker appeals to that audience in three different areas: logos, ethos, and pathos. Considered together, these appeals form what later rhetoricians have called the rhetorical triangle.