Rhetoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255261Author Justin HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by George Steiner, J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, John...

In this learned but practical book, Jen Webb shows how 'research practices can invigorate writing; creative practices can invigorate research; and - if properly organised and managed - creative writing can operate as a mode of knowledge generation, a way...

Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, Nelson Thornes Framework English offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English, Years 7-9, laying particular...

Hailed by the New York Times as a book that "examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence" "An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . . . A lesson...

Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time. Culled chiefly from great...

In an age defined by divisive discourse and disinformation, democracy hangs in the balance. Let's Agree to Disagree seeks to reverse these trends by fostering constructive dialogue through critical thinking and critical media literacy. This...

Rapid Writing is a new KS2 resource ideal for use with struggling writers in small groups and for one-to-one support. Written by expert authors Dee Reid and Diana Bentley, the books and unique software give children the careful progression and motivation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554812578Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 184mm...

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising:...

From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book...

The use of human subjects in medical and scientific research has given rise to troubling ethical questions. How should human subjects be selected for experiments? What should they be told about the research in which they are involved? How can their...

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States' security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941628027Author Marcela SulakFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258446Author Jennifer Clary-LemonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

An indispensable text--now revised and expanded for the digital age--this volume showcases some of the most important work by contemporary rhetorical theorists. The introduction and section openers frame major problems and questions facing the field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953881604Author Kevin LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint BiPressPublisher BiPressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254677Author Jay Timothy DolmageFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Jeremiah Alberg's fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centres, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a...

What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?' Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships,...

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...

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.The handbook features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999624814Author Anne JanzerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Cuesta Park ConsultingPublisher Cuesta Park ConsultingWeight(grams) 426g

This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642494754Author Dr D GnanasekaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)...

In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the...

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733062Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump's manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is...

"The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection...

This book offers pragmatic advice for archival researchers. Archival research of any magnitude can be daunting. With this in mind, Alexis E. Ramsey, Wendy Sharer, Barbara L'Eplattenier, and Lisa Mastrangelo have developed an indispensable volume for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591281030Author Douglas WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Canon PressPublisher Canon PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733130Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809313549Author Anne R. GereFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style-immersion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604597783Author AristotleFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814108789Author Aja Y. MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...