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INVENTION: "FINDING & DEVELOPING A TOPIC & THESIS" (1st CANON OF RHETORIC)
Here in the Course, the Topic is given to you ('invented"). This is not unusual for rhetors past & present: the political, social, institutional, etc. situation that gives rise to the speech or essay determines the Topic ("why to vote for our Party"; "why to reduce Translink bureaucracy"; "why to change the length of the workweek"; etc).
The Topic for this assignment is the moral validity of the restrictions mandated for individuals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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