A way with words writing, rhetoric, and the art of persuasion
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| Language: | English |
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Prince Frederick, Md. :
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p2006.
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| Series: | Modern scholar
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. How to do things with words: rhetoric and speech-act theory, how words can change reality
- Lecture 2. Rhetoric, sophistry, and philosophy
- Lecture 3. Audience
- Lecture 4. Structures of effective arguments
- Lecture 5. The enthymeme
- Lecture 6. The rhetoric of logic: truth and syllogisms
- Lecture 7. Logical fallacies
- Lecture 8. Logos, ethos, pathos
- Lecture 9. Figures of speech I: schemes
- Lecture 10. Figures of speech II: Tropes
- Lecture 11. Grammar I: syntax
- Lecture 12. Grammar II: structure, punctuation ("pause and effect")
- Lecture 13. Subtleties: word choice, speech patterns, accent
- Lecture 14. Rhetorical train wrecks and triumphs.
