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Constructing Rhetorical Education
$38.00In nineteen essays illustrating its many aspects, this book offers an argument for what it takes to construct a complete rhetorical education.The editors take an approach that is pragmatic and…
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Defining Reality
$35.00In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of “is”and more as sociopolitical questions of “ought.” Instead of asking “What is X?”…
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Dialogic Confession
$32.00In this landmark volume of contemporary communication theory, Ronald C. Arnett applies the metaphor of dialogic confession—which enables historical moments to be addressed from a confessed standpoint and through a…
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Dialogue, Dialectic and Conversation
$35.00This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers.We write and read as participants in…
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Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse
$35.00Eighteen essays by leading scholars in English, speech communication, education, and philosophy explore the vitality of the classical rhetorical tradition and its influence on both contemporary discourse studies and the…
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Gender Influences
$35.00Donnalee Rubin examines the responses of thirty-one freshman composition teachers to student writing and shows the negative effects of gender bias on assessment to prove that gender perceptions and expectations…
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Geographies of Writing
$35.00Twenty-first-century technological innovations have revolutionized the way we experience space, causing an increased sense of fragmentation, danger, and placelessness. In Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Nedra Reynolds…
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Hector P Garcia
$35.00Examining the Mexican American civil rights movement through the public rhetoric of a veteran activistHéctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights examines the transition of Mexican Americans…
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor
$17.99The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7…
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Internal Rhetorics
$35.00Since its early history in Greek culture, traditional rhetorical study has focused primarily on persuasive language used in the public sphere. There has been little study, however, of what Jean…
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Invention as a Social Act
$33.00The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention.Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen…