“An orangutan stole my homework”: Using NPR’s “Bluff The Listener” to introduce narrative rationality

Abstract

Courses Rhetorical Criticism, Contemporary Rhetoric, Argumentation, Persuasion, Communication Theory. Objectives Students will (1) learn the basics of the narrative rationality as a mode of judging rhetoric, and (2) observe the ways in which humans use narrative fidelity and narrative probability to judge stories.