Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

“If you say it repetitively in class, the students will start to see how it fits into their own work and eventually it will become second nature to them. Dr. Tommy Boley imbued me with this wisdom to teaching grammar to students last year. While his advice came strictly from the point of view of [...]

Jacob, Bernard E. “What if Aristotle Took Sophists Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review. 14.2(Spring 1996): 237-52.
Bernard Jacob’s “What if Aristotle Took Sophist Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (1996) argues that the passages scholars often interpret as Aristotle’s scathing criticism of sophists in the first two chapters of the Rhetoric are, in [...]

Quandahl, Ellen. “Aristotle’s Rheotic: Reinterpreting Invention.” Rhetoric Review. 4.2(Jan., 1986): 128-137. (Available through JSTOR)
In “Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting Invention,” asserts that the use of the topics in the Rhetoric were not intended as methods of invention, but rather as useful theories to aid in interpretation. Reading the Rhetoric with excerpts from Aristotle’s Topics, along with the [...]

Walter, Otis M. “Plato’s Idea of Rhetoric for Contemporary Students: Theory and Composition Assignments.” College Composition and Communication. 35.1(Feb 1984): 20-30. (Available through JSTOR)
Otis M. Walter’s informative article “Plato’s Idea of Rhetoric for Contemporary Students: Theory and Composition Assignments” suggests several ways Plato’s theory of rhetoric can be incorporated into a contemporary college writing classroom [...]

Though Aristotle is the first to elaborate on the concept of enthymematic reasoning, it is in Cicero’s De Inventione that a distinction is laid out between the three-part and the five-part styles of enthymematic reasoning and a justification is provided for the use of the five-part style. For Cicero, the five-part style of the enthymematic [...]