You will research and critique a speech of your choosing and will write an analysis of the speech (2 pages per speech). See below for the details of this week’s requirements. The final draft should be typed, double-spaced. A works cited section should be included at the end of each paper, following APA Format for all sources used. Many recent speeches (last 40 years or so) are available on YouTube. American Rhetoric (Links to an external site.) has a list of the top 100 speeches (mostly American speeches) with links to MP3 or text for many of them. Wikipedia (Links to an external site.) has a longer list, but no links to the speeches listed (you can use this list as a starting point, but would have to do the research to find the text or video of the speech).
The written analysis should include:
Please include a link to the speech in your report if it is available on the web.
For this week, I would like you to choose a political speech to analyze. This can be an inaugural speech, keynote speech (RNC or DNC convention, for example), policy speech (JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech, for example) or memorial speech (Reagan’s Challenger disaster speech, for example).
