Everyday Use
Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing
Published on 14. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-321-09325-7 (ISBN)
Description
Brief and accessible, this rhetoric teaches students to read closely, critically, and rhetorically, and to write effectively to achieve their rhetorical goals.
Everyday Use answers the basic question, "What is rhetoric?" It shows rhetoric as set of activities-reading, writing, speaking, listening-that all intellectually engaged people participate in every day. And it shows that a knowledge of rhetoric is essential in understanding how written and spoken texts influence thought and action every day, in private and in public forums, for good or ill. By demystifying rhetoric and rescuing it from common public misconceptions, Everyday Use equips students to be effective communicators in the academic world and in everyday life.
Everyday Use answers the basic question, "What is rhetoric?" It shows rhetoric as set of activities-reading, writing, speaking, listening-that all intellectually engaged people participate in every day. And it shows that a knowledge of rhetoric is essential in understanding how written and spoken texts influence thought and action every day, in private and in public forums, for good or ill. By demystifying rhetoric and rescuing it from common public misconceptions, Everyday Use equips students to be effective communicators in the academic world and in everyday life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-321-09325-7 (9780321093257)
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Hephzibah Roskelly | David Jolliffe
Everyday Use
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07/2008
2nd Edition
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Content
Foreword.
Preface.
1. Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives.
Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitions and Examples.
What Does "Being Skilled at Rhetoric" Mean?
Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle.
Key #1: Understanding Persona.
Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience.
Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment.
Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle: Rhetoric Occurs in a Context.
Key #4: Understanding Context.
Key #5: Understanding Intention.
Key #6: Understanding Genre.
Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community.
Rhetoric and Citizenship.
Rhetoric and Community.
Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption.
Interchapter 1.
2. Using the Five Traditional Canons of Rhetoric.
Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals.
Invention.
Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist's Questions.
Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke's Pentad.
Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme.
Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics.
The Basic Topics.
The Common Topics.
Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview.
Arrangement.
Genres.
Functional Parts.
Questions about the Parts.
Style.
Style and Situation.
Style and Jargon.
Are You and I Okay?
Style and Contractions.
Style and the Passive Voice.
Dimensions of the Study of Style.
Sentences.
Parallel Structure.
Words.
General versus Specific Words.
Formal versus Informal Words.
Latinate versus Anglo-Saxon Words.
Common Terms versus Slang or Jargon.
Denotation versus Connotation.
Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes.
Schemes Involving Balance.
Schemes Involving Interruption.
Schemes Involving Omission.
Schemes Involving Repetition.
Tropes Involving Comparisons.
Tropes Involving Word Play.
Tropes Involving Overstatement or Understatement.
Tropes Involving the Management of Meaning.
Memory.
Delivery.
Interchapter 2.
3. Rhetoric and the Writer.
Writing as Process: Making the Right Moves for Context.
Writing as a Rhetorical Process.
Inventing.
Investigating.
Planning.
Drafting.
Consulting.
Revising.
Editing.
Real Writers at Work: Cases for Studying Writing and Rhetoric.
Erica: Slow Starter.
Ericas Intention and Invention.
Apply Ericas Solution.
Chan: Confused about Context.
Chan, Context, and Notes.
Apply Chans Solution.
Tasha, Lewis, and Susan: A Group at Work on Writing.
Nell: The Rhetorical Reviser.
You Pull It All Together.
Using What You Read.
Revising Your First Effort.
Revising for Persona.
Revising for Audience.
Revising Subject.
Revising Evidence.
Interchapter 3.
4. Rhetoric and the Reader.
Predicting Whats Next.
Understanding How Readers Predict.
Rosenblatt and Interaction: Two Kinds of Reading.
Rosenblatt, Reading, and Rhetoric.
Rhetorical Analysis of Chaos.
Matching Experience and Intention.
Rhetorical Analysis-Now You Try It.
Building the Readers Repertoire.
Reading Your Own Writing.
Interchapter 4.
5. Readers as Writers, Writers as Readers: Making Connections.
Reading and Writing: Different? Similar?
The Literacy Memory.
The Process of Making Meaning: Readers as Writers.
More about Prediction and Revision in Reading.
Prediction and Revision in Writing: Writers as Readers.
More about Prediction and Revision in Writing.
Voice and Rhetoric.
What We Hear When We Read and Write.
The Logical Appeal-Logos.
The Ethical Appeal-Ethos.
The Emotional Appeal-Pathos.
The Appeals Combined.
Interchapter 5.
6. Rhetoric in Narrative.
Character.
Rhetorical Choices for Character.
Flat and Round; Static and Dynamic.
Character and the Pentad.
Setting.
Summary and Scenic Narration.
Conflict and Plot.
Tragedy versus Comedy.
Conflict in Decision Making.
Conflict in Relationships.
Conflict with the Elements.
Conflict and the Pentad.
Protagonist, Antagonist.
Narrator Point-of-View.
First-Person Narration.
Third-Person Narration.
Second-Person Narration.
Reliable and Unreliable Narrators.
Narrators in Poems.
Theme.
Theme and the Pentad.
Symbols.
Images.
Diction.
Syntax.
A Final Word about Narrative and about Rhetoric.
Interchapter 6.
Readings.
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."
Eavan Boland, "It's a Woman's World."
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use."
Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Terms.
Index.
Preface.
1. Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives.
Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitions and Examples.
What Does "Being Skilled at Rhetoric" Mean?
Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle.
Key #1: Understanding Persona.
Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience.
Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment.
Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle: Rhetoric Occurs in a Context.
Key #4: Understanding Context.
Key #5: Understanding Intention.
Key #6: Understanding Genre.
Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community.
Rhetoric and Citizenship.
Rhetoric and Community.
Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption.
Interchapter 1.
2. Using the Five Traditional Canons of Rhetoric.
Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals.
Invention.
Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist's Questions.
Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke's Pentad.
Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme.
Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics.
The Basic Topics.
The Common Topics.
Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview.
Arrangement.
Genres.
Functional Parts.
Questions about the Parts.
Style.
Style and Situation.
Style and Jargon.
Are You and I Okay?
Style and Contractions.
Style and the Passive Voice.
Dimensions of the Study of Style.
Sentences.
Parallel Structure.
Words.
General versus Specific Words.
Formal versus Informal Words.
Latinate versus Anglo-Saxon Words.
Common Terms versus Slang or Jargon.
Denotation versus Connotation.
Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes.
Schemes Involving Balance.
Schemes Involving Interruption.
Schemes Involving Omission.
Schemes Involving Repetition.
Tropes Involving Comparisons.
Tropes Involving Word Play.
Tropes Involving Overstatement or Understatement.
Tropes Involving the Management of Meaning.
Memory.
Delivery.
Interchapter 2.
3. Rhetoric and the Writer.
Writing as Process: Making the Right Moves for Context.
Writing as a Rhetorical Process.
Inventing.
Investigating.
Planning.
Drafting.
Consulting.
Revising.
Editing.
Real Writers at Work: Cases for Studying Writing and Rhetoric.
Erica: Slow Starter.
Ericas Intention and Invention.
Apply Ericas Solution.
Chan: Confused about Context.
Chan, Context, and Notes.
Apply Chans Solution.
Tasha, Lewis, and Susan: A Group at Work on Writing.
Nell: The Rhetorical Reviser.
You Pull It All Together.
Using What You Read.
Revising Your First Effort.
Revising for Persona.
Revising for Audience.
Revising Subject.
Revising Evidence.
Interchapter 3.
4. Rhetoric and the Reader.
Predicting Whats Next.
Understanding How Readers Predict.
Rosenblatt and Interaction: Two Kinds of Reading.
Rosenblatt, Reading, and Rhetoric.
Rhetorical Analysis of Chaos.
Matching Experience and Intention.
Rhetorical Analysis-Now You Try It.
Building the Readers Repertoire.
Reading Your Own Writing.
Interchapter 4.
5. Readers as Writers, Writers as Readers: Making Connections.
Reading and Writing: Different? Similar?
The Literacy Memory.
The Process of Making Meaning: Readers as Writers.
More about Prediction and Revision in Reading.
Prediction and Revision in Writing: Writers as Readers.
More about Prediction and Revision in Writing.
Voice and Rhetoric.
What We Hear When We Read and Write.
The Logical Appeal-Logos.
The Ethical Appeal-Ethos.
The Emotional Appeal-Pathos.
The Appeals Combined.
Interchapter 5.
6. Rhetoric in Narrative.
Character.
Rhetorical Choices for Character.
Flat and Round; Static and Dynamic.
Character and the Pentad.
Setting.
Summary and Scenic Narration.
Conflict and Plot.
Tragedy versus Comedy.
Conflict in Decision Making.
Conflict in Relationships.
Conflict with the Elements.
Conflict and the Pentad.
Protagonist, Antagonist.
Narrator Point-of-View.
First-Person Narration.
Third-Person Narration.
Second-Person Narration.
Reliable and Unreliable Narrators.
Narrators in Poems.
Theme.
Theme and the Pentad.
Symbols.
Images.
Diction.
Syntax.
A Final Word about Narrative and about Rhetoric.
Interchapter 6.
Readings.
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."
Eavan Boland, "It's a Woman's World."
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use."
Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Terms.
Index.