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Rhetoric Resources for Instructors
The course materials developed by PWR instructors in previous
years (available on the PWR Website and on instructors’ individual
web pages) represent a wide range of practical approaches to
teaching from a rhetorical perspective. Some focus primarily
on basic rhetorical concepts such as purpose, audience, and context,
while others include the study of stasis theory, the rhetorical
proofs of ethos, logos, and pathos, methods of argument such
as the enthymeme, or a series of schemes and tropes. Whatever
your particular approach, you will want to introduce some rhetorical
concepts early and repeatedly in your classroom activities and
assignments. As all PWR 1 students will be working with rhetorical
and contextual analysis and research-based argument, you will
want to provide, at a minimum, the concepts that will allow them
to develop a rich sense of these tasks. Again, classroom activities
and assignment sequences developed by your colleagues are available
online at http://pwr.stanford.edu/instructors/teach_res/assign.html
The libraries in the PWR office and the Writing Center include
a number of texts on classical and contemporary rhetorical theory,
as well as approaches to its use in the classroom. The brief
bibliography listed below includes some of the best introductory
resources. The PWR Instructor website also includes an excellent
guide to rhetoric sites available on the Internet. You might
also take advantage of opportunities offered by the Professional
Activities and Program Events committees or work with your colleagues
to focus on questions of rhetoric.
- Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from
Classical Times to the Present . 2 nd ed. Boston : Bedford
Books, 2001.
- “A Survey of Rhetoric.” Corbett, Edward P.J.
and Robert J Connors. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4
th ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. 489-543.
- Covino, William and David A. Jolliffe. Rhetoric: Concepts,
Definitions, Boundaries. Allyn and Bacon, 1995. (especially
their introduction, “What is Rhetoric”)
- Crowley , Sharon and Debra Hawhee. “Ancient Rhetorics:
Their Differences, and the Differences They Make.” Ancient
Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 2 nd ed. Boston :
Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
- Enos, Theresa (ed). Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. New
York : Garland Publishing, 1996.
- Lunsford, Andrea A. and Cheryl Glenn. “Rhetorical
Theory and the Teaching of Writing.” 1990. The St.
Martin ’s Guide to Teaching Writing. Eds.
Cheryl Glenn, Melissa Goldthwaite, and Robert Connors. Boston
: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.
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