Rhetoric category: 666 books
Burke in the Archives
Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The charismatic movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term "charismatic" refers to the "gifts of the Holy Spirit"—speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment—said to be available to Christians who have surrendered their lives to...
Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum
Strategies for Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is the work of eight hardworking middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a way to teach writing across the middle school curriculum. Each chapter...
Communication Centers
A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management offers advice based on extant research and best practices to both faculty who are asked to develop a communication center and for directors of established centers. Broken into easily understood parts, Turner and Sheckels begin...
Getting It in Writing
The Quest to Become Outstanding and Effective Teachers of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sixteen teachers. Sixteen journeys. All on a quest to become outstanding teachers of writing. All taking different paths to acquire and hone those skills that make a teacher effective. From kindergarten to college, teachers are faced with the daunting task of instilling the art of writing in their students....
by Maarten A. Hajer, Robert Hoppe, Bruce Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such...
Racial Worldmaking
The Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust...
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.
Slayer Slang
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers. One of the most distinguishing features of the program is the innovative way the show's writers play with language: fabricating new words, morphing existing ones,...
Back to the Blanket
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to...
Writing Childbirth
Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exercise rhetorical agency in undeniably feminist ways. In Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online, author Kim Hensley Owens explores...
Language Power
Dynamic Progression from Word to Message
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The focus of Language Power: Dynamic Progression from Word to Message is on words and how they convey meaning and feeling. The microscopic focus on the word itself evolves into the logical organization of words into meaningful sentences, paragraphs, and document sections. The focus is on the somewhat...
A War of Words
The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A rhetorical analysis of Jefferson Davis’s public discourse
Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from...
The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China
A Rhetorical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author, a...