A way with words: writing, rhetoric, and the art of persuasion

Lecture 1. How to do things with words: rhetoric and speech-act theory, how words can change reality

Lecture 2. Rhetoric, sophistry, and philosophy

Lecture 3. Audience

Lecture 4. Structures of effective arguments

Lecture 5. The enthymeme

Lecture 6. The rhetoric of logic: truth and syllogisms

Lecture 7. Logical fallacies

Lecture 8. Logos, ethos, pathos

Lecture 9. Figures of speech I: schemes

Lecture 10. Figures of speech II: Tropes

Lecture 11. Grammar I: syntax

Lecture 12. Grammar II: structure, punctuation ("pause and effect")

Lecture 13. Subtleties: word choice, speech patterns, accent

Lecture 14. Rhetorical train wrecks and triumphs.