A way with words writing, rhetoric, and the art of persuasion

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Main Author: Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.
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.