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JUDICIAL RHETORIC 4

Project Outline: Judicial Rhetoric

ENGL 570 Term Paper Outline

Liberty University

Introduction

According to Aristotle, judicial rhetoric is one of the three main branches of rhetoric: writing or speech that considers the justice or injustice of a certain charge or accusation.

Thesis statement

The branch of rhetoric that received the most attention was the judicial, the oratory of the courtroom. Litigations in court in Greece and Rome were an extremely common experience for even the ordinary free citizen--usually the male head of a household--and it was a rare citizen who did not go to court at least a half a dozen times during the course of his adult life. Comment by Author: Right now, this is more background information and not really reflective of the main focus for a paper. A thesis should provide a clear and narrowed topic with a controlling statement (what your approach to that topic is in this paper). I don’t really see that declarative statement; instead, this is general information. In fact, this was flagged as being on another website called “thoughtco.”

Prompt

The prompt chosen is culturally informed. In this prompt, I will take into consideration the elements of broader context such as past judicial rhetoric, the trial, and defense in judicial rhetoric and Aristotle’s explanation of judicial rhetoric and how these influences are taken up in rhetorical theory.

Modification of the Prompt to Focus on a Specific Idea

I plan to modify a culturally informed prompt by following the tenets of rhetoric. In this case, I will modify this prompt to fit into invention, arrangement and style tenets (University of Arkansas). The paper will follow three basic appeals to persuade the audience: Logos, Ethos and Pathos.

The Rhetorician to be Included in the Discussion

The rhetorician to be included in the discussion will be Aristotle.

Concerns about the Topic

The purpose of the project is to explore judicial rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome. Any individual reading the classical rhetorics, may discover that judicial as the branch of rhetoric received the most attention because of the discussion of the courtroom (Nordquist, 2017)

Intended Theories

The research intends to use a classical rhetoric theory which traces its roots back to antique Greece, where “rhetoric” denotated the art of public speaking as it advanced under the statutory régime, especially in the 4th and 5th-century Athenian democracy

Judicial Rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Rome

The ordinary citizen lacked the wide-ranging knowledge of the law and its procedures that the professional lawyer did, however, it was great to his advantage to have wide-ranging knowledge of the tactics of defense and prosecution. As a result, the schools of rhetoric did a flourishing business in training the layperson to defend himself in court or to prosecute an offending neighbor.

Aristotle on Judicial Rhetoric and The Enthymeme

Judicial rhetoric promotes justice and identifies injustice by appealing to the law. 'Forensic speech accepts as given the laws of the polis,' so the section on judicial rhetoric uses enthymemes to adjust 'particular cases to general laws.

Prosecution and Defense in Judicial Rhetoric

In judicial rhetoric, prosecutors usually try to arouse assent to the truth of a statement like the following: 'John killed Mary.' That is, prosecuting attorneys try to 'persuade' their audiences to agree with their representations of reality.

The Model for Practical Reason

While modern scholars of practical reasoning hardly think about rhetoric, judicial reasoning is the model for a contemporary practical reason. It is typically assumed that practical reasoning has to continue from rule to case and that the point of practical reasoning is to justify people’s actions. Comment by Author: I’m not sure what you mean here, and part of it is the double use of “reasoning.” Comment by Author: Yolanda, I am a bit concerned about the term paper at this moment. You have information about judicial and other forms of rhetoric here; however, much of it is taken word-for-word from outside sources such as Thoughtco. This is a form of plagiarism, and it makes up a significant part of this outline. First, you want to use peer-reviewed sources to support your ideas in the paper, and when you do use outside sources, you want to be able to properly reference and cite their work to give them credit for it. For traditional outlines, you typically provide one sentence at a time to highlight the main and supporting ideas of the paper. Above I see more general content about the topic, but I’m not really sure how you’re setting up your paper to discuss the topic from a particular view. I highly recommend contacting the online writing center to make sure what you have in the paper is conveying a clear idea and that you’re properly citing sources. For more help with research, the JFL has research librarians who can help you locate sources that would be beneficial to the topic you’ve chosen and help you develop your thoughts further.

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