Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: rhetoric, sciences, economics, human
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1998-04-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299158144
ISBN-13: 9780299158149
A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Author Deirdre N. McCloskey was formerly known as Donald. Her experience in changing gender is reflected in this new edition, but the message remains the same--economics needs to move away from metaphoric rhetoric aimed at persuasion and get back to the science of facts.
Author: Edward Schiappa
Publisher: University of South Carolina Pre
Keywords: rhetoric, studies, communication, philosophy, greek, logos, study, protagoras
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1570035210
ISBN-13: 9781570035210
Protagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of the Older Sophists, Protagoras of Abdera. Most accounts of Protagoras rely on the somewhat hostile reports of Plato and Aristotle. By focusing on Protagoras?s own surviving words, this study corrects many long-standing misinterpretations and presents significant facts: Protagoras was a first-rate philosophical thinker who positively influenced the theories of Plato and Aristotle, and Protagoras pioneered the study of language and was the first theorist of rhetoric. In a
Authors:Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: rhetoric, new, series, pragmatics, intercultural, reaching, contrastive
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-01-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027254133
ISBN-13: 9789027254139
This volume explores the field of contrastive rhetoric, the study of how a person’s first language and culture influence his or her writing in a second language. The book presents a comprehensive view of the research in this field and presents sound advice for dealing with cross-cultural issues in writing classes. The goal is to help teachers become aware of the factors influencing their students’ attempts to compose effective texts and to draw on the resources individual learners bring to the task. This is a solid reference for researchers and teachers in the area of second langua
Author: Joseph Petraglia
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: rhetoric, knowledge, society, education, series, authenticity, design, technology, reality
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0805820418
ISBN-13: 9780805820416
In the first paragraphs of this volume, the author identifies an "authenticity paradox": that the purported real-worldedness of a learning environment, technique, or task is so rhetorically potent that educators frequently call attention to it in pedagogical conversations to legitimize their undertakings, while at the same time, terms such as "real-world" and "authentic" do not require (and even resist) precise delineation. Using the language of authenticity as a keyhole through which to view contemporary educational theory, Petraglia draws on theories of cognition, education, and knowledge t
Author: Lisa Keranen Ph.D.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: rhetoric, culture, social, research, critique, breast, characters, politics, scientific, cancer
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2010-07-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 081731704X
ISBN-13: 9780817317041
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.In the aftermath of this dramatic news, Dr. Bernard Fisher, the eminent oncologist and celebrated pioneer of breast cancer research, came under intense scrutiny following allegations that one of his investigators falsified data in landmark breast cancer research. Although he was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing, the controversy called in
Author: Associate Professor Morris Young
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pre
Keywords: rhetoric, citizenship, studies, writing, narratives, literacy, visions, asian, american, minor
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-03-12
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0809325543
ISBN-13: 9780809325542
Through a blend of personal narrative, cultural and literary analysis, and discussions about teaching, Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship shows how people of color use reading and writing to develop and articulate notions of citizenship. Morris Young begins with a narration of his own literacy experiences to illustrate the complicated relationship among literacy, race, and citizenship and to reveal the tensions between competing beliefs and uses of literacy among those who are part of dominant American culture and those who are positioned as minor
Author: Professor James A. Berlin
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: rhetoric, writing, studies, amp, colleges, instruction, reality, american
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1987-02-26
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 080931360X
ISBN-13: 9780809313600
Berlin here continues his unique history of American college composition begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century.In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three categories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished by the epistemology on which each is based. He makes clear that these categories are not tied to a chronology but instead are to be found in the English department in one form or
