Rhetoric category: 666 books
Inspiring Student Writers
Strategies and Examples for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Getting our students to write and write well is a process Tom Scheft explains and explores—offering practical and theoretical guidance, while providing uplifting, thought provoking examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master’s level. An invaluable supplemental text...
Language, Structure and Reproduction (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Basil Bernstein is one of the most creative and influential of contemporary British sociologists, yet his work – especially that relating to language and social structure – is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. This book, first published in 1985, addresses the underlying themes and continuities...
Primary Research and Writing
People, Places, and Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research...
The Global Student's Companion
10,001 Timeless Themes and Topics for Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Global Student's Companion provides a one-volume resource for English language learners who want to practice their conversation, debate, discussion, or public speaking skills. The wide variety of topics included means that you will be forever challenged, but never bored. Language instructors...
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered...
The Open Hand
Arguing as an Art of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, The Open Hand presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
Critics, Compilers, and Commentators
An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural...
Better Than Great
A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinary — the must have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration....
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax
Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch dialects,...
by Jonathon Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes...
Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography,...
Just Remembering
Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance**and Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
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Published posthumously, The Art of Controversy is one of the most popular books written by Arthur Schopenhauer. It provides us with invaluable advice on how we should go about winning a debate or argument.