In their Trial Advocacy column, Ben Rubinowitz of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz and Evan Torgan of Torgan & Cooper write: The rhetorical question is an effective and ...
This engaging, student-friendly introductory lesson provides the perfect foundation for a unit on persuasion, rhetoric or non-fiction writing. Designed to introduce students to the purpose, power and ...
Dr. Ted Stanley, a writer, lecturer, and media presenter, has released a new book, “Words That Moved a Nation: King and Kennedy, the Power of Persuasion in Public Life,” examining the rhetorical tools ...
We are living in a contentious time in history. Fundamental disagreements on critical policy, economic, and political issues make it essential to learn how to compose an effectiveargument and to ...
If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition. - Lawson-Tancred (1991) in an introduction to Aristotle's The art of rhetoric. Textbooks in ...
Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In ...