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| | Rhetoric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rhetoric thus evolved as an important art, one that provided the orator with the forms, means, and strategies of persuading an audience of the correctness of the orator's arguments. | | | Today the term rhetoric can be used at times to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth. | | | In Classical times, many of the great thinkers spoke their words; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students and followers wrote down. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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| | Rhetoric has three distinct ends in view, one for each of its three kinds. | | | Hence in many places, as we have said already, irrelevant speaking is forbidden in the law-courts: in the public assembly those who have to form a judgement are themselves well able to guard against that. | | | These three kinds of rhetoric refer to three different kinds of time. |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.mb.txt
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| | Aristotle's Rhetoric |
| | If enthymemes are a subclass of dialectical arguments then, it is natural to expect a specific difference by which one can tell enthymemes apart from all other kinds of dialectical arguments (traditionally, commentators regarded logical incompleteness as such a difference; for some objections against the traditional view see §6.4). | | | These chapters are understood as contributing to the argumentative mode of persuasion or—more precisely—to that part of argumentative persuasion which is specific to the several species of persuasion. | | | Why the chapters on the argumentative means of persuasion are separated by the treatment of emotions and character (in II.2-17) remains a riddle, especially since the chapter II.18 tries to give a link between the specific and the common aspects of argumentative persuasion. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric
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| | No. 1926: Rhetoric |
| | Sophist rhetoric was attacked by Plato, who believed in arguments based on logic. | | | The term used by the Greeks was rhetoric, which today not only refers to persuasive communication, but communication that is overly complex or pretentious. | | | Logic is required to find truth, but rhetoric is necessary to communicate truth. |
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http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1926.htm
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| | What is Rhetoric? |
| | Finally, if the rhetor is to be truly effective, he or she must in some way enable or empower the audience to take the action requested. | | | Most of us are used to hearing the word "rhetoric" used with an exclusively pejorative meaning. | | | What assumptions of theirs are being taken for granted?" |
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http://www.engr.usask.ca/dept/techcomm/whatis.html
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| | Rhetoric |
| | The rhetor must assess her audience and then figure out what assumptions operate in her own argument and then what assumptions operate in the arguments made by others. | | | Accordingly, they mistakenly believe that ridiculing or attacking these mistaken beliefs is the most effective way to "win" the argument. | | | This belief works for both a practical and an idealistic reason. |
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http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_rhet.html
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| | Rhetoric Department |
| | Science appears to us as a way of discovering Truth that is wholly divorced from culture, politics, religion, etc., thus radically distinguishing “us” —its practitioners/possessors— from the ways that pre-modern cultures went about making decisions and understanding the natural world. | | | We will do this in order to deepen our engagement with each text, as well as to consider the lure of universal truth and autobiography's engagement with it. | | | Rhetoric 189, section 2: Special Topics: Bring on the Strange: Seeing Different(ly)--Daniel Coffeen |
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http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/undergraduate_courses.html#150
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| | Rogerian Rhetoric: An Alternative to Traditional Argumentation |
| | Rogerian rhetoric, because it privileges co-operative construction of meaning over goal-directed persuasion, the building of relationships over the winning of an argument, seems to fit neatly into the feminist perspective. | | | But the more important news is that the power of rhetoric, Rogerian or not, to heal is as powerful as its ability to persuade. | | | Dialogic communication is only one kind of communication, and Rogerian rhetoric is only one kind of dialogic communication. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/art/rogchap.html
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| | Rhetoric |
| | The best place to look for examples of polysyndetons is the Bible, especially the King James version, but we can use it whenever trying to create the impression of describing or explaining something while barely scratching the surface. | | | Another possibility is that a rhetorical question needs no answer because the preceding discussion has already covered it: | | | Invention, or coming up with something to say in the first place; |
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http://www.galilean-library.org/int21.html
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| | Index to Book I : Aristotle's Rhetoric |
| | Its possible abuse is no argument against its proper use on the side of truth and justice. | | | Rhetoric has regard to classes of men, not to individual men; its subjects, and the premisses from which it argues, are in the main such as present alternative possibilities in the sphere of human action; and it must adapt itself to an audience of untrained thinkers who cannot follow a long train of reasoning. | | | The honest rhetorician has no separate name to distinguish him from the dishonest. |
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http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/Rhetoric/oneindex.html
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| | Dr. B.'s Blog |
| | It's the first day of my undergrad course and I am thinking a lot about how the course will unfold. | | | I am thinking blog/CMS at this point, but am too tired to deal with it. | | | The UN has created a game that seeks to teach children about world hunger. |
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http://www.cla.purdue.edu/blackmon/blog
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| | Kentucky Classics |
| | Anadiplosis: ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next. | | | Phaedrus: That is what those who claim to be professional teachers of rhetoric actually say, Socrates. | | | Never mind the truth -- pursue probability through thick and thin in every kind of speech; the whole secret of the art of speaking lies in consistent adherence to this principle. |
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http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html
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| | Rhetoric |
| | In one sense, the ‘rhetorical situation’ refers to what prods or inspires communication: a pressing need, a conventional ceremony, a specific intention.” | | | Historical analogies are a rhetorical device frequently used by politicians and diplomats to strengthen their arguments or to persuade the public of their views. | | | The most intertextual form of communication that exists today is the World Wide Web, which consists of a huge number of documents linked to other documents through hypertext. |
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http://www.diplomacy.edu/Language/Rhetoric/analysing.htm
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| | Doug Brent's Papers on Rhetoric and Communication |
| | Rogerian Rhetoric: An Ethical Alternative to Traditional Argumentation A chapter from Argument Revisited, Argument Redefined: Negotiating Meaning in the Composition Classroom, ed Barbara Emmel, Paula Resch, and Deborah Tenny (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996). | | | This chapter discusses Rogerian rhetoric and how it can be used in the classroom as an alternative or supplement to the teaching of more traditional forms of argument. | | | Discusses the practical and ethical dilemmas faced by rhetoricians who seek to inform the members of other discourse communities about the practices of those communities. |
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http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/mystuff.html
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| | The Rhetorica Network: Analysis of Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Spin in Politics and Journalism |
| | I am not a scholar of ethics or philosophy; I am a scholar of rhetoric. | | | The classical tradition in rhetoric portrays the orator as one who "embodies all that is best in a culture and brings it to bear on public problems through eloquent discourse." Indeed, the purpose of the classical tradition for education was to produce learned and eloquent leaders for a democratic society. | | | At a deeper level, it teaches that the worldly honors that one may win by being a good speaker...can all to easily erode one's devotion to truth--a devotion that is critical to our integrity as persons. |
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http://rhetorica.net
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| | Lynch, Literary Terms — Rhetoric |
| | The only ways most people know the word are derogatory: a question where no answer is expected is a rhetorical question, and politicians who are all talk and no action are using empty rhetoric. | | | Able rhetoricians, including good writers and good lawyers, know how to make their points effectively, by arranging their arguments and choosing the appropriate language in which to convey them. | | | Deliberative rhetoric, the art of persuading an audience to take (or not to take) some action — think of senators addressing their peers, or lobbyists addressing their representatives; |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/rhetoric.html
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| | The Forest of Rhetoric |
| | It is beyond the definitions that the power of rhetoric is made apparent. | | | This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years). | | | After all, you can enjoy the simple beauty of a birch tree without knowing it is Betula alba and make use of the shade of a weeping willow without knowing it is in fact Salix babylonica. |
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http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/FOREST.HTM
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| | American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank |
| | appears in one of American Rhetoric's text holdings, readers are guaranteed to find a text that is substantively and stylistically faithful to the speech as originally delivered. | | | People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me. As Dick said, I'm a very emotional, passionate man. I can't help it. | | | Through the transcription process it has become evident that a number of speech texts found at other web locations bearing the same title/speaker contain various substantive and/or stylistic errors (e.g., omission, addition, false figuration). |
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
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| | Definitions of Rhetoric |
| | Rhetoric is the process of making known that meaning. | | | Erika Lindemann: "Rhetoric is a form of reasoning about probabilities, based on assumptions people share as members of a community." | | | For this reason, rhetorical communication is explicitly pragmatic. |
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricdefinitions.htm
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| | MIT OpenCourseWare Writing and Humanistic Studies 21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 Home |
| | At its best, rhetoric is used ethically by people of good will who wish to present their ideas forcibly but fairly to their communities. | | | Understanding rhetoric gives us the means of judging whose opinion about issues is the most accurate, useful, or valid, because such knowledge allows us to see beyond the persuasive techniques to the essence of the opinions. | | | Further, understanding rhetoric is the best way of understanding the assumptions of and the points made by those who disagree with our positions. |
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-747RhetoricFall2002/CourseHome
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| | RHETORIC |
| | In its broadest sense, rhetoric concerns both the practice and study of effective communication in literature and in social discourse. | | | Until well into the 19th century, rhetoric was a fundamental area of academic study and a direct influence on the compositional styles of poets, playwrights, and novelists. | | | In addition, as an innately pluralistic form of criticism, rhetorical analysis may serve as a bridge between the study of literature and the study of other forms of discourse: speeches, advertisements, reportage, debates, television news--all manner of texts, images, icons, and symbols. |
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http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/rhetoric.htm
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| | During the Middle Ages, the rise of a school of philosophy known as neo-Platonism, came to be favored by certain scholars, and with this intellectual movement built around the philosophy of Plato came the emphasis also on Rhetoric as a necessary part of education. | | | With the advancement of printing and proliferation of texts, scholarship, moreover, would come to place a far great weight on the written word as a medium of intellectual exploration and pursuasion. | | | Martin Camargo, Rhetoric in The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages, ed. |
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http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/rhetoric.html
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| | purevolume™ Rhetoric |
| | We met some amazing people and bands while we were together. | | | Thanks again to everyone who helped us out and for the support. | | | If you like a little bit of everything you will enjoy the music of Rhetoric and when they come rolling into a town near you, check them out. |
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http://www.purevolume.com/rhetoric
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| | EServer TC Library: Rhetoric |
| | Argumentation Interpretation Rhetoric is an international and interdisciplinary journal founded by the University of Amsterdam and St Petersburg State University to address philosophical and linguistic problems of rhetoric and argumentative discourse. | | | This electronic journal is the first and so far the only one in Russia dealing with problems of argumentation theory, rhetoric and communication processes. | | | Rhetoricians are in a state of flux as to what strategies or principles should be used when teaching rhetoric and composition. |
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http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Rhetoric
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| | Cicero:The Genres of Rhetoric |
| | Her.: [Cicero], The Rhetoric for Herennium [Rhetorica ad Herennium] [n: This text used to be attributed to Cicero, but now his authorship has definitely been rejected. | | | Because the true identity of the author is unknown, the anonymous author is sometimes referred to as [Cicero], or as Pseudo-Cicero, or as Auctor ad Herennium (meaning "the author to Herennium").] | | | elsewhere: a rather complex discussion of the parts of persons pursued especially in relation to judicial rhetoric. |
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http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/reader/cicero.html
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| | Graduate Rhetoric & Writing PhD Concentrations |
| | Note: PhD students who have completed the MA in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing at MSU have, in effect, completed the requirements for this concentration. | | | This concentration invites students who wish to explore literary and theoretical approaches to specific cultural traditions, as well as those who are interested in conducting qualitative research into rhetorical practices in particular cultural scenes. | | | Unlike more traditional programs in rhetorical theory, Cultural Rhetorics is distinctive both in its emphasis on located practices and in its methodological flexibility: |
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http://www.rhetoric.msu.edu/graduate/concentrations.html
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| | Aristotle's Rhetoric |
| | You can also search the site by keyword: | | | The site also now includes a Bekker index to assist classical scholars more familiar with this referencing system from the definitive Greek text. | | | It is my hope that online scholars of the rhetorical tradition will find this resource quite helpful in checking and rechecking specific passages of the |
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http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/Rhetoric
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| | rhetoric - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about rhetoric |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | In vivid contrast to the sad and terrible destiny of the king imprisoned in the Bastile, and tearing, in sheer despair, the bolts and bars of his dungeon, the rhetoric of the chroniclers of old would not fail to present, as a complete antithesis, the picture of Philippe lying asleep beneath the royal canopy. | | | Oratory first appeared in the law courts of Athens and soon became important in all areas of life. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/rhetoric
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| | the canons of rhetoric |
| | Treatises on rhetoric also discuss at some length the roots or sources of rhetorical ability, and specific kinds of rhetorical exercises intended to promote linguistic facility. | | | Rhetorical treatises through the centuries have been set up in light of these five categories, although memory and delivery consistently have received less attention. | | | That is to say, they provide a template for the criticism of discourse (and orations in particular), and they give a pattern for rhetorical education. |
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http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Canons/Canons.htm
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| | The Art of Rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos |
| | According to Aristotle, rhetoric is "the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion." He described three main forms of rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. | | | In order to be a more effective writer, you must understand these three terms. | | | To learn more about rhetorical appeals see the Rhetoric Collection from Carnegie-Mellon University |
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http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4
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| | Rhetoric Department |
| | The Department of Rhetoric is a leading center for interdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. | | | The Department is also committed to the study of rhetorical traditions, from the classical era to contemporary rhetorical theory. | | | Linked by a common interest in the functions of discourse in all its forms, faculty and students engage the theoretical, historical, and cultural dimensions of interpretation and criticism, in fields as diverse as political theory, gender, law, media studies, philosophy, and literature. |
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http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu
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| | American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States |
| | Find out who made the cut and experience the power of rhetorical eloquence in this provocative list of "who's who" in American public address. | | | Complete index to and partial text and audio database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by | | | Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. |
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com
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| | The Internet Classics Archive Rhetoric by Aristotle |
| | Rhetoric has been divided into the following sections: | | | Commentary: Several comments have been posted about Rhetoric. | | | Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
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| | English Department - Ph.D. in Rhetoric |
| | How do rhetors shape the resources provided by history, culture, and the nature of the human mind and of human language, for the purposes of inquiry and change? | | | The program familiarizes students with the history and theory of rhetoric and language study and with a variety of methods, qualitative and quantitative, for systematically exploring their interests in research projects and dissertation work. | | | The program focuses on how people produce and understand discourse across a variety of social, cultural, and material contexts, in schools, workplaces, and communities. |
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http://english.cmu.edu/degrees/phd_rhetoric/phd_rhetoric.html
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| | Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric |
| | The Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee, but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected. | | | An online version of Aristotle's Rhetoric is based on the translation of noted classical scholar W. Rhys Roberts. | | | A website with primary texts, criticism and discussion of Cicero's rhetorics. |
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http://rhetoric.eserver.org/categories/history/classical
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| | Technorati Tag: rhetoric |
| | Posts tagged Rhetoric per day for the last 30 days. | | | Search or read full text, highlight, cite and auto-create bibliographies and get a personal bookshelf. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged rhetoric. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/rhetoric
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| | Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Communication: Rhetoric |
| | Rhetoric Links - Internet links on rhetoric and its theory. | | | The Power of Words - A description with examples of twenty types of emotional appeals, fallacious arguments, and other verbal manipulations that touch the heart and manipulate the mind. | | | Rhetorical Studies Resources - Resources in philosophy, metaphor, and other topics of interest to rhetorical studies scholars, from the University of Iowa. |
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Communication/Rhetoric
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| | Rhetoric - Wikiquote |
| | "The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric." |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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| | Retoriikka * Retorik * Rhetoric |
| | Bibliography for Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University. | | | A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples; The Classics Department, University of Ketucky, Lexington. | | | The University of Victoria Writer's Guide: Literary and Rhetorical Terms: |
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http://www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/related/retorik.html
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| | JSTOR: Rhetoric Review |
| | Rhetoric Review also invites readers to contribute to the Burkean Parlor, a discourse forum for discussion of | | | The journal publishes manuscripts that explore the breadth and depth of the discipline, including history, theory, writing, praxis, philosophy, professional writing, rhetorical criticism, cultural studies, multiple literacies, technology, literature, public address, graduate education, and professional issues. | | | Please read JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use before you begin. |
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/07350198.html
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| | Graduate Rhetoric & Writing Students |
| | poetry and performance rhetorics in Native nation-building and decolonization, Cherokee Studies, Native Two-Spirit and Queer identities, Red-Black identities, Native language restoration, healing historical trauma, radical pedagogies, Indigenous erotics, social justice | | | critical and community literacies, working class literacy practices, composition pedagogy/anti-racist pedagogy, teacher research, rhetorical approaches to genre, multigenre teaching in the writing classroom | | | online community culture and discourse analyses, Native American rhetorics and language reclamation, feminist and critical theory, digital and community literacies and activism, usability, service learning |
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http://www.rhetoric.msu.edu/graduate/gradstudents.html
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| | BUBL LINK: Rhetoric |
| | It also shows relationships and groupings of terms within and across the various levels of the rhetorical curriculum. | | | Speeches by Fidel Castro from 1959, translated into English, and arranged by year, and then by date of delivery. | | | Author: Ellison, Robert H. Subjects: baptism, christian texts, rhetoric |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/r/rhetoric.htm
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| | Department of Rhetoric |
| | The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. | | | Our history and mission statement, the latest news and events, and how to contact us and get here. | | | Admission, degree requirements, course offerings, and graduate minors. |
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http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu
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| | Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason |
| | Please send letters to the editor for publication to letters@spinsanity.org and private questions or comments to | | | The nation's leading watchdog of manipulative political rhetoric. |
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http://www.spinsanity.org
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| | Rhetoric Notes |
| | A Paper on Discourse Communities by R. Majerus | | | A Paper on Rhetoric as Epistemic by J. Schroeder |
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http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/rhetnoteb.html
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