Journal readings

Introduction to rhetoric and rhetorical study

Roochnik, David. “Is Rhetoric an Art?”. Rhetorica, 12.2 (1994): 127-154

Villanueva’s piece on “Precendents”

Islamic Rhetorics

Halldén, Philip. “What is Arab Islamic Rhetoric? Rethinking the History of Muslim Oratory Art and Homilethics”. International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 19-38

Schaub, Mark. “Rhetorical Studies in America: The Place of Averroës and the Medieval Arab Commentators”. Alif 16 (1996): 233-253.

American Indian Rhetorics

Powell, Malea. “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing”. College Composition and Communication 53.3 (2002): 396-434

Powell, Malea. “Down by the River, or How Susan La Flesche Picotte Can Teach Us about Alliance as a Practice of Survivance”. College English, 67.1 Special Issue: Rhetorics from/of Color (2004): 38-60

& Haas, Driskill…

Rhetoric and Activism

Cushman, Ellen. “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”. College Composition and Communication, 47.1 (1996): 7-28

(response to Cushman) Alkidas, Laurie. “Another Approach to Our Role as Rhetoricians”. College Composition and Communication, 48.1 (1997): 105-107

Welch, Nancy. “Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era”. College Composition and Communication 56.3 (2005): 470-492