Rhetoric

A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel. Crowds swarm when US presidents travel abroad, though many never hear their voices. The presidential body, moving from one secured location to another,...

Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen five-paragraph essays outside of school walls? Have you ever found it in business...

Treatment of Error offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what teachers of multilingual writers need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. As in the first edition, Ferris again persuasively addresses the fundamental error...

This volume uniquely explores critical and corpus-based perspectives on intercultural rhetoric. Many chapters examine what is meant by "culture" and how that affects research and pedagogy, particularly with regard to new forms of literacy. The contents...

It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing global migrations and seemingly instantaneous global communication. Yet, the conceptual basis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome.This unique anthology of primary texts in classical rhetoric contains the work of 24 ancient writers from Homer through St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864963Author John MichellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury USAWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178146Author Amy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 140mm * 14mm

Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Journalists played a significant role in transforming...

A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism.I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a variety of texts-ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political...

The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa's history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late...

Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and space In 1917, Alice Paul and other suffragists famously picketed in front of the White House while holding banners with short, pithy sayings such as "Mr. President:...

Strangely Rhetorical establishes the groundwork for strangeness as a lens under the broader interdisciplinary umbrella of rhetoric and composition and shares a series of rhetorical devices for practically thinking about how compositions are made unique...

News media and popular culture in the United States have produced a conventional narrative of the outcomes of sexual abuse: someone perpetrates sexual violence, goes to trial, and is then punished with prison time. Survivors recede into the background,...

The Sixth Edition of Barry Brummett's Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides readers with in-depth insight into the techniques of rhetorical criticism to analyze the full spectrum of contemporary issues in popular culture. Exploring a wide range of mass...

A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse.Many of the most controversial political issues of our time focus on the actions and well-being of...

This edited collection explores theoretical and practical applications of the Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) approach, an innovative and sustainable alternative to writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines. The collection's purpose...

Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency...

A decolonial reading of Han Dynasty rhetoric reveals the logics and networks that governed early imperial China. In Genre Networks and Empire, Xiaoye You integrates a decolonial and transnational approach to construct a rhetorical history of early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815166Author K. J. PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

In Sounding Composition Steph Ceraso reimagines listening education to account for twenty-first century sonic practices and experiences. Sonic technologies such as audio editing platforms and music software allow students to control sound in ways that...

Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as...

In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organisations and media respond to and report on emerging global epidemics. The first outbreak to garner such attention was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In Rhetoric of...

Over 25 centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Protagoras declared: ""on every question there are two opposing answers, including this one"". This work sets out to demonstrate that Protagoras' statement constitutes one of the fundamental principles of...

The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers-often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation,...

Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of public health, as is evident whenever a mass shooting occurs. But guns also play an important role in...

Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a...

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork.A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies-including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches,...

Traditional grammar instruction often focuses too much on what's right or what's wrong, hiding the true power of conventions-the creation of meaning, purpose, and effect. Instead of hammering high school students with the mistakes they should avoid, Jeff...

Reprogrammable Rhetoric offers new inroads for rhetoric and composition scholars' past and present engagements with critical making. Moving beyond arguments of inclusion and justifications for scholarly legitimacy and past historicizations of the...

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 such as The Test Drive, Stupidity, Crack Wars,...

Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781417750573Author William ZinsserFormat HardbackPage Count 321Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814139783Author Sandra L. TarabochiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers...

Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a...

Resounding the Rhetorical offers an original critical and theoretical examination of composition as a quasi-object. As composition flourishes in multiple media (digital, sonic, visual, etc.), Byron Hawk seeks to connect new materialism with current...

Winner, 2018 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardSulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking process. In Shades of Sulh, Rasha Diab explores the possibilities of the rhetoric of sulh, as it is used to resolve intrapersonal, interpersonal, communal, national,...

Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consuming a majority share of the planet's natural resources, and serving as the media generators and health care...

The Oxford Reader offers a renewed emphasis on more traditional forms of literacy-sustained reading, writing, and thinking-which comes at a particularly urgent moment. In a world of alternative facts and fake news, the importance of a well and deeply...