Rhetoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569243794Author William ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Marlowe & CoPublisher Marlowe & CoWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and...

With it's unique range of rich fiction and non-fiction texts, and comprehensive coverage of the core skills, "Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Fiction and Non-Fiction" targets pupils secure at Level 4, or at Level 5 and above. Uniquely, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970526Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 481g

This in-depth, process-oriented guide takes students through the research process step-by-step, following five students from across the disciplines throughout their research projects-from developing interests, investigating sources, and focusing ideas to...

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the...

Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterisations of Renaissance stylistic theory are reductions obscuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427352Author Steven J CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

This book provides a comprehensive view of contemporary genre theory.In ""Writing Genres"", Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this...

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past...

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...

Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis. This book addresses rhetorical themes and cultural...

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this updated eighth edition gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of...

First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is...

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that challenges students and scholars of the built environment to peer beyond the somewhat typical collection of monuments, museums, and...

This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260899894Author John LanganPage Count 752Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 184mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809317271Author Gesa KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362188Author Dominic J MantheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817322465Author Dominic J MantheyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

One of Mexico's foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsivais has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called...

It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric's journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influ enced by the intellectual thought of the Muslim Near East. Lahcen Elyazghi Ez zaher contributes to...

Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. Cicero recommends an Aristotelian...

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,...

Failing Sideways is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics. While valuing and representing the research, theory, and practice of assessment, authors Stephanie...

This collective project provides vital groundwork for understanding sexual harassment as well as encouraging the difficult conversations that are steps to awareness, action, and prevention. The project mandates a heightened consciousness of sexual...

Across national and cultural borders, the archetype of the fool has played a significant role in how communities interpret and ascribe identity. As Charles Campbell and Johan Cilliers remind us, the Christian preacher, tasked with delivering a...

How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day Caught between their identity as Christians and social norms that silenced them, American women used scripture to claim moral and then rhetorical agency...

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the "middle range" of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426171Author Mariya TseptsuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426218Author Asao B InoueFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). In this highly original book, Alexandra C. Klaren...

This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, and dynamics that have contributed to increasing democratic dysfunction and violence. Informed by their novel...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells's efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes-racial, social, and gender equity.Book InformationISBN 9780817322175Author Mary E. TrieceFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells's efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes-racial, social, and gender equity.Book InformationISBN 9780817361792Author Mary E. TrieceFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint...

Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy rooted in the American pragmatist tradition. Robert Danisch analyzes the characteristics of communication...

As colleges and universities have responded to the demand of businesses and industries for graduates who can write effectively, Composition Studies has gained significance. However, while new theories and approaches to the teaching of writing have been...

"Teaching Academic Writing" examines the issues that confront teachers of academic writing classes. In a series of ten teacher-focused chapters, Friedrich offers practical advice and solutions in areas of teaching, assessment and feedback."Teaching...

Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens by drawing upon a mixed-methodological approach that includes site-based analysis, participant observation, textual analysis,...