Table of Contents
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
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Rhetorical Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
An Introduction to Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Triangle,
Jacob Babb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Canons of Rhetoric as Phases of Composition,
Will Dodson and Chelsea Skelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rhetorical Context Is (Almost) Everything, Amy Berrier . . . 21
Writing with the Rhetorical Appeals, Christina Romanelli . 25
Reading for the Rhetorical Appeals, Lauren Shook . . . . . 33
Academic Integrity, Charles Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Portfolio Process, Brian Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Rhetorical Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Reading Critically, Sonya Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Invention, Asking Questions to Find a Starting Point,
Kathleen T. Leuschen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
How the Thesis Guides Effective Writing,
Charlie McAlpin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Play of Style, Ann-Marie Blanchard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Revision Is Writing, Matt Mullins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Understanding Tone and Voice, Lilly Berberyan . . . . . . . . 83
Arrangement as Rhetorical Composing,
Chelsea Skelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
It’s All—Well, a Lot—in the Delivery, Brenta Blevins . . . . . 93
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Rhetorical Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Genre of Academic Discourse, Craig Morehead . . . 101
Finding a Conversation to Find Research,
Courtney Adams Wooten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Situating Evidence through Contextualization,
Alison M. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Art of Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting,
Brian Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Understanding the Rhetorical Dimensions of
Academic Citations, Lavina Ensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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Rhetorical Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Reading an Assignment Sheet, Summar Sparks . . . . . . 133
Viewing Peer Review as a Rhetorical Process,
Lavina Ensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Instructor Feedback as Part of the Rhetorical
Conversation, Kristine Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Conferencing Rhetorically, Rae Ann Meriwether . . . . . . 146
Rhetoric and the Creative Writer, Amelie Welden . . . . . . 149
Rhetorical Analysis and Visual Media,
Zach Laminack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Analyzing Film Rhetoric, Dan Burns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
The Writing Center: Where Writers Meet,
Alan Benson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Proofreaders’ Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
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