Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth

By Ward Farnsworth

Masters of language can flip unassuming phrases into words which are convincing, potent, and memorably attractive. Lincoln and Churchill had this energy: having heard their phrases as soon as, the reader or listener can scarcely think the area with no them. What are the secrets and techniques of this alchemy? the reply lies in rhetoric within the honorable experience of the be aware – no longer the dronings of undesirable politicians, however the paintings of utilizing language to cajole, impact, or in a different way impact an viewers. Rhetoric during this feel is one of the such a lot historic educational disciplines, and all of us use it each day even if expertly or now not. This booklet is a full of life set of classes at the topic. it truly is approximately rhetorical figures: functional methods of using previous and strong rules – repetition and diversity, suspense and reduction, concealment and shock, the construction of expectancies after which the delight or frustration of them– to the composition of an easy sentence or a whole paragraph. although first tested in classical Greece and Rome, those thoughts additionally have been studied heavily through previous generations of the easiest English writers and orators and have been frequently hired by way of them to beautiful impression. Classical English Rhetoric recovers this information for our instances. It organizes, illustrates, and analyzes the main worthwhile rhetorical units with impeccable readability and in extraordinary element. The e-book quantities to an educational on eloquence performed via virtuoso college: not only Lincoln and Churchill, yet Dickens and Melville, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, and greater than 100 others. the result's a brand new addition to the checklist of vital books for the author or speaker – a hugely invaluable reference instrument, and a profitable resource of guideline and enjoyment for all fans of the English language.

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She has conducted numerous writing-across-the-curriculum workshops at the secondary and college levels, often focusing on computers as effective tools for supporting writing-across-the-curriculum efforts. BARBARA M. D. from Carnegie Mellon University. An affiliate of the Center for the Study of Writing at Carnegie Mellon, her research focuses on writers' revising processes and on developing models of writing instruction based on cognitive process research. Her other interests include writing with computers and instructional uses of computers.

BYRON L. STAY is Associate Professor of Writing at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and Director of the Writing and Communications Program. When he is not teaching argumentative writing or descriptive and narrative writing, he works in and manages the college Writing Center. He has published articles in the Writing Center Journal, the Journal of Teaching Writing, and the Maryland English Journal. EVANGELINE MARLOS VARONIS is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Akron.

Section VI, "How Affective Discourse Constructs Its Public," expands the notion of readership to the polity at large. The essays in this section show how orators and institutions use pathos to shape public opinion and action. Rather than discussing the individual essays in detail here, we provide extended introductory notes at the head of each section. These notes explore the relationships among the essays and foreground the larger issues they raise for rhetorical education. In drawing these theoretical and pedagogical implications from an essay (or conjunctions of essays), we often extrapolate from the particular conclusions drawn by the authors to issues of broader concern.

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