Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism brings together fifteen rhetorical critics who address contemporary issues in criticism by answering three key questions: What is the purpose of rhetorical criticism? How do you practice rhetorical criticism? How do you teach rhetorical criticism? The book serves as both guide and resource in all three areas, presenting personal perspectives from top rhetorical critics.
She has published numerous articles and book chapters and authored two books, Flights of Fancy, Flight of Doom: KAL 007 and Soviet-American Rhetoric and Coaching Debate. With David Marples, she edited Nuclear Energy and Security in the ...
In addition to covering traditional modes of rhetorical criticism, the volume presents less commonly discussed rhetorical perspectives, exposing students to a wide cross-section of techniques.
From Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A Reader, ed. Walter Jost and Michael Hyde (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 196–214. “Hermeneutical rhetoric” is the counterpart of Steven Mailloux's “rhetorical hermeneutics.
See in addition: Dennis M. Simon, “Public expectations of the president,” in The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency, ... Jennifer R. Mercieca and Justin S. Vaughn, “Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations,” in The ...
Yet, faculty members who participate in such programs are rarely prepared to teach composition skills or communication skills, let alone, assess student performance in areas such as listening, adapting to and collaborating with others, ...
This collection of essays emphasizes the ways that digital technology intrudes upon rhetorical theory and how readers can be everyday rhetorical critics within an era of ever-increasing use of digital technology.
... rhetoric about the definition of and role of context in rhetorical theory and criticism. Some notable engagements with context include Lloyd Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1, no. 1 (1968): 1–14; Raymie E ...
The Third Edition of The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture offers students a step-by-step introduction to rhetorical theory and criticism by focusing on the powerful role popular culture plays in persuading us as to what to believe and ...
The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of this diverse subject, including relevant pedagogical approaches, how to apply practical aspects of PTC theory, and how to design assignments.
As such, using the term “atheist” privileges western logics that are often promoted in rhetorical studies (Shome 1996). ... Coalition of America, used the term in the title of his book Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans.