Rhetoric category: 666 books
Worlds Apart
Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Every day in classrooms, teachers and students think about and with text. Their beliefs about what text is, who created it, and how to evaluate it are an influence, often a profoundly important one, on how they use text. This book brings together research on epistemology, belief systems, teacher beliefs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Studying narratives is often the best way to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated—the narrator employs specific informational methods to build the whole structure of a narrative through combining temporally constructed events in light of...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
Scalia v. Scalia
Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law
Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most controversial justices to have been on the United States Supreme Court....
by Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Critical Conversations About Plagiarism is an edited collection of essays that addresses traditional, overly simplistic treatments of plagiarism by providing approaches to the topic that are complex, critical, and challenging, as well as accessible to both students and teachers.
by Michelle Murray Yang
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This bookpursues this question by rhetorically analyzingU.S. news and political...
Speaking of Language and Law
Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers...
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,...
Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument
Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Are feminists really angry, unreasoning, man-haters who argue only from an emotional perspective as some claim? Does the incessant repetition of this trope make anti-feminism and misogyny a routine element in everyday speech? And does this repetition work towards delegitimizing feminist arguments...
Infertility
Tracing the History of a Transformative Term
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe.
Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually...
Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics
From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics examines the rhetorical performances of women who hold or have held the highest office of a nation-state. This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform—discursively, visually, and physically—their positions...
Reimagining Advocacy
Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that results...
by Denise Tillery
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in...