Rhetoric category: 666 books
James Farmer Jr.
The Great Debater
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.’s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book...
Writing for Educators
Personal Essays and Practical Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published. The essays focus on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. The authors are...
by Arthur Whimbey, Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification,...
Fundable Knowledge
The Marketing of Defense Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Knowledge is the basic output of the defense technology establishment in the United States; it is what enables the development of weapon systems. From this premise, this volume explores the process of knowledge production in defense technology from the beginnings of the Cold War to the present time....
Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A growing number of both established and newly developed doctoral programs are focusing on the preparation of practitioners rather than career researchers. Professional doctorates such as the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Doctor of Education (EdD), Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Doctor of Professional...
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American...
Time To Know Them
A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In a time of declining resources in institutions of higher education, we grapple with how priorities are to be set for the limited resources available. Most vulnerable are those students labeled underprepared by colleges and universities. Should we argue that the limited resources available ought...
Ecologies of Writing Programs
Program Profiles in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material...
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged...
The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk
A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about writing....
Writing Postindustrial Places
Technoculture amid the Cornfields
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Exploring the relationship between postindustrial writing and developments in energy production, manufacturing, and agriculture, Michael J. Salvo shows how technological and industrial innovation relies on communicative and organizational suppleness. Through representative case studies, Salvo demonstrates...
Spreading the Word
Poetry and the Survival of Community in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1995
In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York. As the program came together, so did the community—young and old, poor and privileged, even those who could not read or write but wanted to tell their stories. This book is a testimony to the poetry...