Assess students' ability to evaluate rhetorical effectiveness, logical validity, and bias in political speeches, opinion editorials, and persuasive social media content—tasks include identifying rhetorical strategies and intended audience, analyzing claim–evidence connections and formal/informal fallacies, detecting types and sources of bias (selection, framing, omission), evaluating credibility and ethical implications of evidence and appeals, and comparing persuasive tactics across genres through short written analyses scored with a rubric.