Category: Rhetoric

By Gary A. Remer

For hundreds of thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the particular perform of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, providing the Ciceronian rhetorical culture as a rejoinder. He argues that the Ciceronian culture is predicated on useful or “rhetorical” politics, instead of on idealistic visions of a politics-that-never-was—a reaction that's ethically sound, if no longer altogether morally pure.

Remer’s examine is precise from different works on political morality in that it turns to Cicero, no longer Aristotle, because the progenitor of a moral rhetorical standpoint. opposite to many, if no longer such a lot, stories of Cicero because the mid-nineteenth century, that have both attacked him as morally detached or have purely taken his persuasive ends heavily (setting his ethical issues to the side), Ethics and the Orator demonstrates how Cicero offers his perfect orator as exemplary not just in his skill to cajole, yet in his skill as a moral individual. Remer makes a compelling case that Ciceronian values—balancing the ethical and the invaluable, prudential reasoning, and decorum—are no longer specific basically to the thinker himself, yet are specific of a broader Ciceronian rhetorical culture that runs in the course of the background of Western political proposal post-Cicero, together with the writings of Quintilian, John of Salisbury, Justus Lipsius, Edmund Burke, the authors of The Federalist, and John Stuart Mill.

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By Seth Kahn,JongHwa Lee

This volume examines the position of rhetoric in today’s tradition of democratic activism. the amount takes on of the main major demanding situations presently dealing with modern rhetorical reports: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in worldwide context, and (2) the principal position of rhetoric in democratic activist practices. In proposing various political and rhetorical struggles of their particular contexts, editors Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee enable participants to mirror on and problematic percentages for either activist techniques to rhetorical stories, and rhetorical techniques to activist initiatives, facilitating greater figuring out the socio-political outcomes of this paintings.


With participants from widely recognized students in verbal exchange and composition reports, the gathering bargains functional situations that spotlight how rhetoric mediates, constitutes, and/or intervenes in democratic rules and practices. It additionally considers theoretical questions that recognize profound voids within the rhetorical culture (e.g., Western, neo-Aristotelian, liberal) and extend the horizon of conventional rhetorical views. It advocates new wisdom and practices that extra advertise civic engagement, social swap and democracy within the international context.


Activism and Rhetoric will be acceptable for students and scholars throughout disciplines, including rhetoric, composition, conversation reviews, political technology, cultural reviews, and women’s experiences.

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By Robert Forrant,Jurg K Siegenthaler,Charles Levenstein,John Wooding

"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, absolutely one-half of the inhabitants 14 years of age or over is hired within the woolen and worsted generators and cotton mills". hence starts off the federal government's document on Strike of fabric employees in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This ebook follows up, 100 years later. The story's retelling deals readers a thrilling reexamination of simply how robust a united operating type will be. the nice Lawrence fabric Strike of 1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - used to be a public protest through 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant employees from numerous nations, triggered by way of a salary lower. sponsored by means of skillful local organizing, supported by means of hundreds of thousands of acts of unity, and unified by way of a dedication to recognize each striker's nationality and language, the walkout unfold around the city's densely packed tenements. Defying the assumptions of mill proprietors and conservative exchange unionists alike that mostly lady and ethnically different staff couldn't be geared up, the ladies activists, as one mill boss defined them, have been filled with "lots of crafty and likewise plenty of undesirable mood. they're in every single place, and it really is getting worse all of the time." occasions in Lawrence among January eleven and March 25, 1912, replaced hard work background. during this quantity the authors take on the strike tale via new lenses and dispel assumptions that the citywide walkout used to be a spontaneous one led by way of outdoor agitators. additionally they talk about the significance of greedy the importance of occasions just like the 1912 strike and fascinating within the means of group remembrance. This e-book appeals to a large constituency. so much at once, it's of serious relevance to historians of work, industrialization, immigration, and the advance of towns, in addition to researchers learning social events. the tale of the Bread and Roses Strike resonates strongly with social justice supporters, the women's circulation, advocates for kid's future health, and anti-poverty corporations. Social reports and college-level lecturers will locate it a wealthy source. Graduate-level scholars will locate concept for additional study. The Bread and Roses strike has first-class identify popularity and has continually had a substantial foreign audience.

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By Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Kellogg

For the earlier 40 years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal paintings for literary scholars, academics, writers, and students. Countering the tendency to view the radical because the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg within the unique variation provided a compelling historical past of the style narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, whilst they conducted their major job of describing and examining the character of narrative's major parts: which means, personality, plot, and viewpoint. Their heritage emphasised the vast sweep of literary narrative from precedent days to the modern interval, and it integrated a bankruptcy at the oral background of written narrative and an appendix at the inside monologue in old texts.
The 40th anniversary variation of this groundbreaking paintings has been revised and improved to incorporate a brand new preface and a long bankruptcy on advancements in narrative conception in view that 1966 by means of James Phelan. This bankruptcy describes the rules and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical methods to narrative, paying designated recognition to their paintings on plot, personality, and narrative discourse.
A endured chief within the box of narrative reviews, The Nature of Narrative deals precise and helpful histories of either narrative and narrative theory.

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By Information Age Publishing,Deborah M. Stankevich

16 lecturers. 16 trips. All on a quest to develop into amazing academics of writing. All taking various paths to obtain and hone these abilities that make a instructor potent. From kindergarten to varsity, academics are confronted with the daunting job of instilling the paintings of writing of their scholars. From artistic writing to analyze, the artwork of writing comprises the writing strategy to create the inking of our pondering. those sixteen academics from around the country have traveled a protracted and laborious route to search and to arrive for the equipment and methods that may lead them to profitable writing lecturers. those are their stories.

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By Mariusz Ozminkowski

this can be a short creation to argumentation and debate. it really is in response to the primary that arguments are vital: that they're not just advocacy of definite place, but additionally part of discussion find the easiest solutions to the main tricky questions. The publication explores equipment in constructing arguments at the questions of truth, worth, and coverage. It emphasizes the purpose that argumentative ability will be practiced top whilst engaged on issues on the topic of determination- and policy-making: to find functional options to functional difficulties. additionally, it covers varieties of reasoning, logical fallacies, and the proof. additionally, the publication teaches kind and supply. eventually, each one bankruptcy ends with a listing of keyword phrases, routines, and examine questions making the booklet a useful textual content for school argumentation and demanding considering courses.

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By Michael Brückner

Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen setzen oft – aus vielen guten Gründen – auf Direkt-Mailings. Doch den reizüberfluteten Kunden mit verführerischen Angeboten in keeping with put up hinterm Ofen hervorzulocken, will gerade in Zeiten der Social Media gelernt sein. Eine geschickte Strategie ist das A und O jeder Werbeaktion – ob guy nun an die Neugier, die Eitelkeit oder das Gewissen seiner Zielgruppe appellieren will. Michael Brückners Praxishandbuch zeigt, wie guy seine Verkaufsargumente sprachlich perfekt inszeniert: von der Dramaturgie über die Technik bis hin zur Optik. Headline, Ansprache, Einstieg, Angebot, Schlussformel. Ein guter short ist ein kleines Kunstwerk – und wandert auch nicht in den Papierkorb!
-Die Bausteine erfolgreicher Mailings
-Die geschicktesten Strategien
-Den richtigen Ton treffen
-Mit Musterbriefen, Checklisten und Praxistipps

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By Kendall Haven

This booklet is a "best of" choice of counsel and routines to assist nurture younger writers and advance center abilities. due to the fact that each one job has been attempted and confirmed in millions of school rooms, you will find profitable tools for turning even the main reluctant scholars into potent, robust writers.

• positive aspects 8 crucial parts of potent narratives

• hyperlinks advice and actions to the typical center kingdom Standards

• contains the 5 steps of potent writing

• includes instruments, confirmed actions, and research-based suggestions to reinforce writing proficiencies within the classroom

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By Charles Arthur Willard

Normal zero fake fake fake MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* type Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} The thesis of this e-book is that argument isn't really a type of good judgment yet one of those communication—conversation in accordance with war of words. Claims concerning the epistemic and political results of argument get their authority no longer from good judgment yet from their “fit with the evidence” approximately how conversation works. A thought of Communication therefore deals an image of communication—distilled from components of symbolic interactionism, own build thought, constructivism, and Barbara O’Keefe’s provocative puzzling over logics of message layout. the image of argument that emerges from this tapestry is startling, for it forces revisions in considering wisdom, rationality, freedom, fallacies, and the constitution and content material of the argumentation discipline.

The burden of this publication is to set up a theoretical context for, and to complicated the consequences of, the declare that argument is a kind of interplay within which or extra humans preserve what they construe to be incompatible positions.

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By Candace Spigelman

Responding to modern dialogue approximately utilizing own debts in educational writing, Personally Speaking: Experience as proof in educational Discourse attracts on classical and present rhetorical concept, feminist idea, and appropriate examples from either released writers and first-year writing scholars to demonstrate some great benefits of mixing experiential and educational perspectives.

Candace Spigelman examines how merging own and scholarly worldviews produces invaluable contradictions and contributes to a extra a fancy knowing in educational writing. This rhetorical movement makes it possible for higher insights than the interpreting or writing of experiential or educational modes individually does. Personally Speaking foregrounds the semi-fictitious nature of non-public tales and the rhetorical probabilities of facts as Spigelman presents suggestions for writing teachers who are looking to train own educational argument whereas delivering functional mechanisms for comparing experiential claims.

The quantity seeks to complicate and accentuate disciplinary debates approximately how compositionists may still write for booklet and what types of writing may be taught to composition scholars. Spigelman not just provides proof as to why the non-public can count number as facts but in addition relates how to take advantage of it successfully by means of together with scholar samples that replicate specific positive factors of private writing. ultimately, she lays the basis to maneuver narrative from its present website as confessional writing to the area of educational discourse.

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