The rhetorical tradition, Michelle Ballif asserts, is based on the systematic exclusion of sophistry. In keeping with Aristotle’s prescription, rhetoric continues to be a counterpart to dialectic, a h
During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, historians of rhetoric, composition, and communication vociferously theorized historiographical motivations and methodologies for writing histories in their
The engaging political speeches and persuasive writing of today are carefully crafted instances of rhetoric. The governing theories behind contemporary speakers and writers are deeply rooted in the c
In what could be called an encyclopedia of rhetoricians, forty-three academics in English, rhetoric, and composition write 5-15 page entries on 40 thinkers including Bakhtin, Barthes, Booth, Cixous, d
This volume explores how women in the fields of rhetoric and composition have succeeded, despite the challenges inherent in the circumstances of their work. Focusing on those women generally viewed as
This volume explores how women in the fields of rhetoric and composition have succeeded, despite the challenges inherent in the circumstances of their work. Focusing on those women generally viewed as
Studies highlight how writing programs from first-year composition programs to undergraduate and graduate programs in rhetoric and composition are ecologies, in that they grow out of and interact with
