Language arts & disciplines / Rhetoric

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

by Mary Ellen Ledbetter

Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance...

Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak

by David Gold & Catherine L. Hobbs

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied...

Reagan at Westminster: Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War

by Robert C. Rowland & John M. Jones

 President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical...

Translating the Middle Ages

by Karen L. Fresco & D. Wright

Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adaptation and...

Analyze, Organize, Write

by Arthur Whimbey & Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins

This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming...

Why Johnny Can't Write: How to Improve Writing Skills

by Myra J. Linden & Arthur Whimbey

The authors of this book, both experienced teachers, examine the controversy surrounding two popular methods for teaching writing -- the "process" approach and its offspring, Writing Across the Curriculum. Both...

Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

by Frederick J. Antczak, Cinda Coggins & Geoffrey D. Klinger

Representing current theory and research in rhetoric, this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical, critical, historical, and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work...

Reading Ronell

by Diane Davis

Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction. In works...

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

by Thomas Mallon

A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.

Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly...

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model

by Charles Marsh

This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms,...

The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China: A Rhetorical Perspective

by Ming Xiao & Thomas W. Benson

A firsthand account of the power of rhetoric to establish and challenge cultural controls in modern China

Beginning Writers in the Zone of Proximal Development

by Elizabeth Petrick-Steward

How do young children bridge the gap between "writing" a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tell a story is a topic important to both cognitive development...

The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power

by Joshua Frye & Michael Bruner

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity,...

F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism: The Rhetoric of a Philosophical Rebel

by Mark J. Porrovecchio

Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864–1937) was the foremost first generation British pragmatist; he is also the most overlooked pragmatist. F. C. S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism: The Rhetoric of a...

Managing Vulnerability: South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric

by Richard C. Marback

A detailed account of the struggle to cultivate connectedness out of the divisiveness of apartheid

Defining Visual Rhetorics

by Charles A. Hill & Marguerite Helmers

Images play an important role in developing consciousness and the relationship of the self to its surroundings. In this distinctive collection, editors Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers examine the connection...

The George W. Bush Presidency: A Rhetorical Perspective

by , Jr. Denton, Gwen Brown & Matthew T. Althouse

The George W. Bush Presidency: A Rhetorical Perspective, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr., examines the rhetoric of former president George W. Bush across contexts of domestic policy, foreign policy, the wars...

Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy

by Anat Shenker-Osorio

This concise, entertaining book shows us how wrong-headed metaphors and deceptive language have muddled our economic thinking, and how better word choice alone can win the debate

Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas

by Travis J. Koll

Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.

Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

by Christopher Lyle Johnstone

An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle