Provide a complete and well-conceived answer to each of the following questions. Your answer should be no less than 4 pages in length for each question. Please use APA in-text citation and provide a list of references for any texts you cite in these essays. Consider some of the earliest notions of rhetoric that we discussed at the beginning of class and how many of those notions have evolved into theoretical approaches to rhetoric across time. Choose one of Aristotle’s three proofs (ethos, pathos, or logos) and make a case for three of the authors we studied over the semester. How do the author’s musings build on Aristotelean notions of rhetoric? How do they expand or change the conversation about how we think about the practice of persuasive discourse today? Read Booker T. Washington’s speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition included at the end of this document.
