The following materials are for faculty new to the Rhetoric Program at The College of New Jersey. Included are several key documents, and a few textbooks. The list below names the documents and texts and occasionally describes their place in the Rhetoric Program. In addition to the version in the Rhetoric Web, a duplex version is available in the English Department Office. Other versions are also available in the Rhetoric Web.
Faculty are free to use any form or technique they choose to evaluate student speeches.
Required Texts A list of the texts used by all sections of Rhetoric I and II, except for Rhetoric II for Engineering Majors which uses a different text. Reserved Readings A copy of the memo that reserves four of the topics in the anthology of Writing Arguments for Rhetoric II only. Faculty are not required to use any specific texts as readings for either Rhetoric course, and are free to use any readings they see fit, with one exception. Your syllabus should include an account of work that will be assigned and how the various assignments figure into the course grade. This text is used by all sections of Rhetoric I, and all sections of Rhetoric II, except for Rhetoric II for Engineering majors.