Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Everything you'll need to learn, to learn to use, and to know in order to excel in this course, and ultimately to succeed as a student and as a professional who writes as part of her or his job, can be found at this site. I recommend this site most highly of all those I've visited for the study of Rhetoric.

Rhetoric Resources at Georgia Tech

While this is a site with a reasonably broad range of uses to the study of rhetoric, for our pouposes in 1213 I recommend you first confine yourself to study of the Issues addressed under the heading of Student Essays. Go to the bottom frame, and click on the ISSUES link. Read a couple of these very brief essays in order to give yourself a sense of what is being discussed in this forum, and of how that discussion is formed.