Assess students' ability to apply discourse analysis methods to identify and interpret stance and engagement strategies in contemporary political speeches. Test skills in annotating short speech excerpts for stance markers (lexical choice, modality, evaluation), mapping engagement resources (address, uptake, dialogic positioning), deploying appraisal and cohesion analysis, comparing rhetorical choices across speakers, and justifying interpretations with textual evidence and implications for audience positioning and persuasion. Suitable for short-answer, annotation, and brief analytic essay tasks.