Category: Rhetoric

By John Logie

ISBN-10: 1602350051

ISBN-13: 9781602350052

Friends, PIRATES, AND PERSUASION: RHETORIC within the PEER-TO-PEER DEBATES investigates the position of rhetoric in shaping public perceptions a couple of novel know-how: peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. whereas broadband net companies now permit fast transfers of advanced media records, american citizens face actual uncertainty approximately no matter if peer-to-peer dossier sharing is or can be criminal. John Logie analyzes the general public arguments starting to be out of greater than 5 years of dialogue sparked via the arrival of Napster, the 1st broadly followed peer-to-peer expertise. the controversy keeps with the second one wave of peer-to-peer dossier move utilities like Limewire, KaZaA, and BitTorrent. With friends, PIRATES, AND PERSUASION, Logie joins the likes of Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jessica Litman, and James Boyle within the ongoing attempt to problem and alter present copyright legislation in order that it fulfills its function of fostering creativity and innovation whereas maintaining the rights of artists in an consciousness financial system. Logie examines metaphoric frames-warfare, robbery, piracy, sharing, and hacking, for example-that dominate the peer-to-peer debates and demonstrably form public coverage at the use and alternate of electronic media. friends, PIRATES, AND PERSUASION identifies the Napster case as a failed chance for a effective nationwide dialogue on highbrow estate rights and tasks in electronic environments. Logie closes via interpreting the U.S. perfect Court's ruling within the "Grokster" case, within which prime peer-to-peer businesses have been came upon to be actively inducing copyright infringement. The Grokster case, Logie contends, has already produced the chilling results that would stifle the leading edge spirit on the center of the net and networked groups. in regards to the writer John Logie is affiliate Professor of Rhetoric on the college of Minnesota.

By Tom Dobson

ISBN-10: 9462096392

ISBN-13: 9789462096394

ISBN-10: 9462096406

ISBN-13: 9789462096400

ISBN-10: 9462096414

ISBN-13: 9789462096417

By Marcus Tullius Cicero

ISBN-10: 0195091981

ISBN-13: 9780195091984

In On the precise Orator, (De oratore), Cicero, the best Roman orator and prosewriter of his day, offers his mature perspectives on rhetoric, oratory, and philosophy. solid within the energetic, literary type of a discussion, this vintage paintings offers a bold view of the orator because the grasp of all language verbal exchange whereas nonetheless emphasizing his position on the middle of Roman society and politics. Cicero's notion of the best orator represents his personal unique synthesis of the positions of the philosophers and the rhetoricians within the age-old quarrel among those disciplines.
the 1st translation of De oratore in over fifty years, this quantity is perfect for classes on Cicero and at the historical past of rhetoric/oratory. James may well and Jakob Wisse supply a correct and obtainable translation that's dependent on--and contributes to--recent advances in our realizing of De oratore and of the numerous facets of old rhetoric, philosophy, and historical past appropriate to it. Their translation displays the numerous diversifications of Cicero's variety, that are crucial constituents of the paintings. the amount comprises huge annotation, in accordance with present scholarship and delivering major unique contributions to boot. it's also superior by way of a whole creation overlaying all very important facets of either the paintings and its ancient historical past; appendices on Cicero's works, figures of idea and speech, and trade manuscript readings; a word list of phrases from rhetoric and Roman lifestyles and politics; and a complete index of names and locations.

By Zachary Sng

ISBN-10: 0804770174

ISBN-13: 9780804770170

Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with either the origins and the safeguard of cause, used to be clearly keen on what may be the foundation of all errors. a subject matter any systematic account of information needs to grapple with, blunders turned a common element of discussion in new clinical, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay pertaining to Human Understanding as his element of departure, Sng examines a few such debates, targeting literary and philosophical debts of the connection among language and inspiration. instead of coming near near its subject conceptually or traditionally, he is taking on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical techniques. In so doing, Sng elucidates how humans wrote approximately errors and the way texts claimed to supply trustworthy and error-free modes of data. the diversity of authors addressed—Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe—demonstrates the range and heterogeneity underlying the textual creation of the age.

By Mary Leonhardt

ISBN-10: 0307554090

ISBN-13: 9780307554093

Strong writing talents are crucial for achievement at school, collage, and at the activity. In ninety nine how you can Get young ones to like Writing, educator Mary Leonhardt offers mom and dad with functional, easy-to-follow the way to train their young ones the basics of writing and make it enjoyable for them even as.

Here are only some of her nuggets of advice:

¸ regularly be encouraging approximately your kid's writing.
¸ don't be concerned approximately educating grammar to teenagers once they are only commencing to write. such a lot grammar wisdom is bought instead of at once learned.
¸ offer lots of writing material.
¸ inspire your preschool young ones to dictate tales to you.

Leonhardt follows up with 10 effortless how one can educate Them Grammar, crucial instruments for all budding writers.

From the alternate Paperback edition.

By Cory

This paintings good points an built-in method of writing and grammar.

By Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor

ISBN-10: 079143396X

ISBN-13: 9780791433966

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a set of essays in regards to the politics and practices of producing scholarship in rhetoric and composition. The participants to this e-book, lots of whom are present or earlier editors of the discipline's such a lot prestigious scholarly journals, absolutely have their finger at the pulse of composition's most present scholarship and provide useful perception into the creation and e-book of unique examine. They talk about publishing articles and studies, in addition to book-length tasks, together with scholarly monographs, edited collections, and textbooks. in addition they handle such themes as how composition study is valued in English departments, fresh advancements in digital publishing, the paintings conduct of winning educational writers, and the issues of mentoring graduate scholars in a publish-or-perish career. An inviting and priceless tone makes this a fantastic textbook for examine technique writing classes. "This wonderful assortment is the easiest booklet i do know on how you can post scholarship in rhetoric and composition--and why one should.It also will have nice worth for these outdoors rhetoric and composition, in view that a lot of the recommendation and knowledge is well transferable. Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, notwithstanding, is way greater than a "How To" booklet. It additionally marks a different degree within the professionalization of a self-discipline that's guaranteed to develop into more and more very important within the coming years. additionally, this selection of essays by means of prime experts within the box offers a remarkably complete survey of what's occurring during this box on the moment." -- J. Hillis Miller, from the Foreword

By James Crosswhite

ISBN-10: 022601651X

ISBN-13: 9780226016511

“Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,” claimed Aristotle. “Rhetoric is the 1st a part of common sense rightly understood,” Martin Heidegger concurred. “Rhetoric is the common kind of human communication,” opined Hans-Georg Gadamer. yet in Deep Rhetoric, James Crosswhite bargains a groundbreaking new notion of rhetoric, person who builds a definitive case for an knowing of the self-discipline as a philosophical company past uncomplicated argumentation and is totally conversant with the advances of the recent Rhetoric of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca.

Chapter by way of bankruptcy, Deep Rhetoric develops an knowing of rhetoric not just in its philosophical size but in addition as a way of guiding and carrying out conflicts, reaching justice, and figuring out the human . alongside the way in which, Crosswhite restores the normal dignity and significance of the self-discipline and illuminates the twentieth-century resurgence of rhetoric between philosophers, in addition to the function that rhetoric can play in destiny discussions of ontology, epistemology, and ethics. At a time whilst the fields of philosophy and rhetoric have diverged, Crosswhite returns them to their universal moorings and indicates us an invigorating new means ahead.

By Roderick P Hart

ISBN-10: 0205377998

ISBN-13: 9780205377992

A accomplished and updated advent to the research of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers the best way to research and interpret rhetorical occasions, rules, arguments, constitution, and style.

The textual content covers quite a lot of serious ideas, from cultural and dramatistic research to feminist and Marxist techniques. A wealth of unique feedback demonstrates the right way to examine such various types as unsolicited mail, congressional debates, and site visitors rules, in addition to literature. This long-awaited revision includes new assurance of mass media, feminist feedback, and ecu criticism.

By Constance Hale

ISBN-10: 038534693X

ISBN-13: 9780385346931

Today’s writers want extra spunk than Strunk: no matter if it's the nice American electronic mail, Madison street ads, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing needs to bounce off the web page. reproduction veteran Constance Hale is on a venture to make inventive conversation, either the lyrical and the illegal, an alternative for everyone.

With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s floor ideas whereas revealing numerous unconventional syntax secrets and techniques (such as the best way to use—Gasp!—interjections or while to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully reliable writing. detect how to:

• Distinguish among phrases which are “pearls” and phrases which are “potatoes”
• stay away from “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” while selecting verbs
• Use literary units akin to onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and comprehend what you're doing)

Everyone must understand how to put in writing trendy prose—students, execs, and professional writers alike. no matter if you’re writing to promote, surprise, or simply sing, Sin and Syntax is the consultant you want to enhance your command of the English language.