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