choose a commencement speech to analyze. Here are a couple of sites listing their picks for the best commencement speeches.

• Search YouTube for Commencement speeches and see if a figure from sports, movies, music, politics that you know has delivered a commence address this year!

Most commencement speeches are easily forgotten (as a professor, I have heard over a dozen and don't remember any of them!) but occasionally, someone will deliver one that transcends the occasion and truly inspires. See if you can find one that does the same for you.Follow the guidelines above. Submit your paper by the due date listed in the syllabus. Guidelinesfor all critique assignments below:

Speech critiques

You will research and critique a total of three speeches in this class of their own choosing and will make an analysis of the speeches (two pages per speech). Many recent speeches (last 40 years or so) are available on YouTube.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

has a list of the top 100 speeches (mostly American speeches) with links to MP3 or text for many of them.WikipediaLinks 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:

• setting/purpose of speech
• discussion of the speech's strengths and weaknesses
• rhetorical/stylistic devices
• audience adaptation
• analysis of 2 direct quotes