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Baca, Damian – College English, 2009
In 1992, more than 20 artists showcased their work in a traveling exhibit, "Chicano Codex: Encountering Art of the Americas." Each piece creatively resembled Mesoamerican amoxtli, the pictographic "codex books" that were destroyed by European combatants as a strategy for subjugating indigenous minds. Spain's campaign of…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Land Settlement, Rhetorical Criticism, Foreign Countries
Kyburz, Bonnie Lenore – Composition Studies, 2008
In this article, the author reflects on her personal experience, along with various historical accounts, in order to project a sense of "crisis" in 1963 film culture and argues that a similar disposition attempted to move 1963 Composition. Explored through the lens of the year 1963, the author focuses at the work of an iconic filmmaker--Jean Luc…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Writing (Composition), Films, Criticism
Doxtader, Erik – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010
Does rhetoric have a place in the discourse of human rights? Without certain reply, as the dilemmas of defining, claiming, and promoting human rights appear both to include and exclude the rhetorical gesture, this question invites inquiry into the preface of the contemporary human rights regime, the moment of the aftermath that provokes a struggle…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Conflict Resolution, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism
Cumming, Brett – Online Submission, 2012
This literature review serves to inform the reader on current literature on Contrastive Rhetoric (CR), with specific reference to teaching writing to Japanese students of English. It will examine the historical developments of CR and its present significance before then looking at possible reasons for unique characteristics of Japanese L2 writers…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Rhetoric
Weissman, Gary – College English, 2009
In her influential 1988 essay, "Fighting Words," Jane Tompkins argued that the arguments typically made by literary critics are characterized by an aggressive competitiveness that amounts to violence. But, as Tompkins's own rhetorical strategies demonstrate, at least as deplorable are the practices whereby critics render certain people anonymous.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Criticism, Interprofessional Relationship, Competition
Green, Bill – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
Re-reading James Moffett's work in the light of more recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this paper presents a "deconstructive" account of Moffett's key texts. Understanding them as instances in themselves of rhetoric and textuality, and reading them at once "with" and "against" the grain, the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Invention, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
McGuire, Lauren A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the effect of direct instruction in rhetorical analysis on students' critical thinking abilities, including knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The researcher investigated student perceptions of the effectiveness of argument mapping; Thinker's Guides, based on Paul's model of critical thinking; and Socratic questioning.…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes
Beckelhimer, Lisa – English Journal, 2010
Historical nonfiction is effective in teaching rhetoric for two main reasons. First, historical texts communicate through a real-world lens that students can understand and find familiar. Students study history and are exposed to current events through the news, school, and each other. Second, since history affects people's lives so broadly, its…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Time Perspective, Instructional Effectiveness, Rhetoric
Turnage, Anna K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This project is situated within the interpretive tradition in organizational communication research, focusing on organizational discourse. It goes further by bringing the discussion into the 21st century through examining how communication technology--specifically e-mail--plays a role in the linguistic practices that help create, maintain and…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Employees, Organizational Communication, Rhetoric
Ross, Derek G. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2009
Phishing e-mails deceive individuals into giving out personal information which may then be utilized for identity theft. One particular type, the Personal Solicitation E-mail (PSE) mimics personal letters--modern perversions of "ars dictaminis" (the classical art of letter writing). In this article, I determine and discuss 19 appeals common to the…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Electronic Mail
Suspitsyna, Tatiana – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
Accountability is one of the most advocated and controversial topics in US education. Since the early 2000s, the federal government has produced a vibrant discourse on accountability, which emphasizes quality, efficiency, and equal opportunity in education. As part of the larger phenomenon of new managerialism, the dominant forms of accountability…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Rhetoric, Federal Government, Politics of Education
Kang, Jiyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study offers a rhetorical analysis of the 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils ["ch'otpul siwi"] with a focus on the role of the Internet in public opinion building, the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and rhetorical agency residing in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean schoolgirls walking along a rural road…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rhetoric, Internet, Public Opinion
Thompson, Roger – College English, 2007
In this article, the author argues that Emerson repudiated the formalism of nineteenth century belletristic, mechanistic, reason-centered, American rhetoric influenced by Hugh Blair. Instead Emerson promoted a rhetoric with imagination at its center, which calls for civic duty. (Contains 33 notes.)
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Imagination, Rhetorical Invention, Rhetorical Criticism
Hartnett, Stephen John – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2011
The "twisted cyber spy" affair began in 2010, when Google was attacked by Chinese cyber-warriors charged with stealing Google's intellectual property, planting viruses in its computers, and hacking the accounts of Chinese human rights activists. In the ensuing international embroglio, the US mainstream press, corporate leaders, and White…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Rhetoric, Intellectual Property, Global Approach
Bahri, Deepika – College English, 2008
The collection of articles in featured in the special issue of the "College English" focus on the virtues of rhetorical analysis in understanding global concerns. In this article, the author offers her views about these articles. The author contends that neither feminism nor rhetorical analysis should be considered mere supplements in the study of…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Global Approach, Feminism