Rhetoric, media and public voice
Create an accountable public argument in two media, test its assumptions and revise for a skeptical audience.
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Preparation: You need no experience of formal debate. Begin by noticing who is speaking, to whom, about what decision. All campaign documents below are invented teaching materials, not research findings.
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Lesson sequence
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Give a message an audience and a decision
Adapt a proposal to an audience’s authority, needs and constraints without changing the underlying evidence.
Find the bridge between evidence and a proposal
Separate a claim, its evidence and its unstated assumption, then qualify the claim when the bridge is weak.
Compare how messages direct attention
Analyze credibility, emotion and reasoning while checking what a message emphasizes or omits.
Make a visual claim inspectable
Design a text-and-visual message whose hierarchy, scale and caption preserve the limits of its evidence.
Let a serious objection change your argument
Represent a strong opposing reason fairly and respond through evidence, concession or a revised proposal.
Correct a message without hiding the correction
Trace public claims to their evidence and issue a visible correction when wording overstates that evidence.
A public argument in two media
Develop an argument about the supplied study-room pilot or a bounded issue you can investigate responsibly. Create a written proposal and a poster storyboard or speech script. Both must preserve the same evidence and uncertainty. Private submission is sufficient; publication and personal disclosure are optional.
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