Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing Nasta

, by Roskelly, Hephzibah; Jolliffe, David

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ISBN: 9780321093844 | 0321093844
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Copyright: 1/12/2005

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Preface

Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives

(32)

Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitions and Examples

(2)

What Does ``Being Skilled at Rhetoric'' Mean?

(1)

Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle

(9)

Key #1: Understanding Persona

(3)

Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience

(1)

Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment

(3)

Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle: Rhetoric Occurs in a Context

(5)

Key #4: Understanding Context

(1)

Key #5: Understanding Intention

(1)

Key #6: Understanding Genre

(2)

Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community

(9)

Rhetoric and Citizenship

(3)

Rhetoric and Community

(2)

Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption

(4)

Interchapter 1

(4)

Using the Five Traditional Canons of Rhetoric

(54)

Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals

(2)

Invention

(1)

Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist's Questions

(3)

Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke's Pentad

(3)

Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme

(4)

Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics

(4)

The Basic Topics

(2)

The Common Topics

(2)

Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview

(1)

Arrangement

(5)

Genres

(1)

Functional Parts

(1)

Questions About the Parts

(2)

Style

(23)

Style and Situation

(1)

Style and Jargon

(1)

Are You and I Okay?

(1)

Style and Contractions

(1)

Style and the Passive Voice

(1)

Dimensions of the Study of Style: Sentences, Words, and Figures

(1)

Sentences

(3)

Parallel Structure

(3)

Words

(1)

General Versus Specific Words

(1)

Formal Versus Informal Words

(1)

Latinate Versus Anglo-Saxon Words

(2)

Common Terms Versus Slang or Jargon

(1)

Denotation Versus Connotation

(1)

Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes

(1)

Schemes Involving Balance

(1)

Schemes Involving Interruption

(1)

Schemes Involving Omission

(1)

Schemes Involving Repetition

(1)

Tropes Involving Comparisons

(1)

Tropes Involving Word Play

(1)

Tropes Involving Overstatement or Understatement

(1)

Tropes Involving the Management of Meaning

(1)

Memory

(1)

Delivery

(3)

Interchapter 2

(4)

Rhetoric and the Writer

(34)

Writing as Process: Making the Right Moves for Context

(1)

Writing as a Rhetorical Process

(5)

Inventing

(1)

Investigating

(1)

Planning

(1)

Drafting

(1)

Consulting

(1)

Revising

(1)

Editing

(1)

Real Writers at Work: Cases for Studying Writing and Rhetoric

(20)

Erica: Slow Starter

(3)

Erica's Intention and Invention

(1)

Apply Erica's Solution

(3)

Chan: Confused About Context

101

(2)

Chan, Context, and Notes

103

(3)

Apply Chan's Solution

106

(1)

Tasha, Lewis, and Susan: A Group at Work on Writing

106

(3)

Nell: The Rhetorical Reviser

109

(2)

You Pull It All Together

111

(2)

Using What You Read

113

(1)

Revising Your First Effort

113

(1)

Revising for Persona

114

(1)

Revising for Audience

115

(1)

Revising Subject

116

(1)

Revising Evidence

116

(3)

Interchapter 3

119

(2)

Rhetoric and the Reader

121

(28)

Predicting What's Next

122

(4)

Understanding How Readers Predict

125

(1)

Rosenblatt and Interaction: Two Kinds of Reading

126

(5)

Rosenblatt, Reading, and Rhetoric

129

(1)

Rhetorical Analysis of Chaos

130

(1)

Matching Experience and Intention

131

(5)

Rhetorical Analysis: You Try It

136

(4)

Building the Reader's Repertoire

140

(2)

Reading Your Own Writing

142

(5)

Interchapter 4

147

(2)

Readers as Writers, Writers as Readers: Making Connections

149

(30)

Reading and Writing: Different? Similar?

151

(1)

The Literacy Memory

152

(1)

The Process of Making Meaning: Readers as Writers

153

(4)

More About Prediction and Revision in Reading

157

(2)

Prediction and Revision in Writing: Writers as Readers

159

(1)

More About Prediction and Revision in Writing

160

(1)

Voice and Rhetoric

161

(1)

What We Hear When We Read and Write

162

(13)

The Logical Appeal: Logos

163

(2)

The Ethical Appeal: Ethos

165

(2)

The Emotional Appeal: Pathos

167

(2)

The Appeals Combined

169

(6)

Interchapter 5

175

(4)

Rhetoric in Narrative

179

(30)

Character

182

(6)

Rhetorical Choices for Character

183

(1)

Flat and Round, Static and Dynamic

184

(2)

Character and the Pentad

186

(2)

Setting

188

(4)

Summary and Scenic Narration

191

(1)

Conflict and Plot

192

(6)

Tragedy Versus Comedy

194

(1)

Conflict in Decision Making

194

(1)

Conflict in Relationships

195

(1)

Conflict with the Elements

195

(1)

Conflict and the Pentad

196

(2)

Protagonist, Antagonist

198

(1)

Narrator: Point of View

198

(6)

First-Person Narration

198

(2)

Third-Person Narration

200

(1)

Second-Person Narration

201

(1)

Reliable and Unreliable Narrators

202

(1)

Narrators in Poems

202

(2)

Theme

204

(2)

Theme and the Pentad

204

(1)

Symbols

205

(1)

Images

205

(1)

Diction

205

(1)

Syntax

205

(1)

A Final Word About Narrative---and About Rhetoric

206

(1)

Interchapter 6

207

(2)

READINGS

209

(26)

``On the Duty of Civil Disobedience''

210

(16)

Henry David Thoreau

``It's a Woman's World''

226

(2)

Eavan Boland

``Everyday Use''

228

(7)

Alice Walker

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms

235

(12)

Credits

247

(4)

Index

251

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Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing Nasta

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