World of Rhetoric: Volume I
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 229
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The use of rhetoric is both an art and a moral responsibility.
World of Rhetoric: Volume I helps students comprehend the complexities of rhetoric through a multi-faceted lens. Through an examination of rhetoric’s birth in ancient Greece and its evolution over time, students learn how age-old rhetorical concepts change with culture and how they can utilize these techniques. By balancing abstract concepts with practical application, the text enables students to answer three questions: “What is rhetoric?; How does rhetoric reflect a community’s values?; and How do communities use rhetoric to deal with controversial issues?”
Sam Perry and Sarah Walden’s World of Rhetoric: Volume I:
- Is filled with thorough explanations that prepare students to enter the world as ethical users and discerners of rhetoric.
- Provides an overview of rhetoric and its history in ancient Greece.
- Examines audience analysis and discusses how to navigate the perceptions of the audience.
- Addresses the rhetorical situation, including discussion of the creation of situational meaning and reality definition.
Introductory Section
1. Introduction to World of Rhetoric
Unit 1: Origins of the Rhetorical Tradition
2. Headnote for Unit 1: Plato, Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Truth
3. Stasis in Space! Viewing Definitional Conflicts Surrounding the James Webb Space Telescope Funding Debate
4. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Unit 2
5. Headnote for Unit 2: Audience Analysis, Empathy, and Revision
6. Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civil Discourse
7. Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being
8. The Second Persona
9. I and Thou
10. Writing Without Teachers
11. Rewriting How to Do Things with Texts
12. Teaching Rewriting
Unit 3
13. Headnote on Unit 3: The Rhetorical Situation and Research Methods
14. The Rhetorical Situation
15. The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation
16. Hunting and Heritage on Trial: A Dramatistic Debate Over Tragedy, Tradition and Territory
17. Defining Reality