Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing
by Roskelly, Hephzibah C.; Jolliffe, David A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
Brief and accessible, this rhetoric teaches students to read closely, critically, and rhetorically, and to write effectively to achieve their rhetorical goals.The five traditional canons of rhetoric ¿invention, arrangment, style, memory, and delivery- are introduced in a particularly accessible chapter, showing students that rhetoric has roots in antiquity but essential applications in our own time (Ch 2).
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives | |
| Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitions and Examples | |
| What Does "Being Skilled at Rhetoric" Mean? Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle | |
| Key #1: Understanding Persona | |
| Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience | |
| Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment | |
| Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle: Rhetoric Occurs in a Context | |
| Key #4: Understanding Context | |
| Key #5: Understanding Intention | |
| Key #6: Understanding Genre | |
| Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community | |
| Rhetoric and Citizenship | |
| Rhetoric and Community | |
| Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption. Interchapter 1 | |
| Using the Five Traditional Canons of Rhetoric | |
| Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals | |
| Invention | |
| Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist's Questions | |
| Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke's Pentad | |
| Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme | |
| Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics | |
| The Basic Topics | |
| The Common Topics | |
| Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview | |
| Arrangement | |
| Genres | |
| Functional Parts | |
| Questions about the Parts | |
| Style | |
| Style and Situation | |
| Style and Jargon | |
| Are You and IOkay? Style and Contractions | |
| Style and the Passive Voice | |
| Dimensions of the Study of Style | |
| Sentences | |
| Parallel Structure | |
| Words | |
| General versus Specific Words | |
| Formal versus Informal Words | |
| Latinate versus Anglo-Saxon Words | |
| Common Terms versus Slang or Jargon | |
| Denotation versus Connotation | |
| Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes | |
| Schemes Involving Balance | |
| Schemes Involving Interruption | |
| Schemes Involving Omission | |
| Schemes Involving Repetition | |
| Tropes Involving Comparisons | |
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