Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric in the classical tradition / Winifred Bryan Horner.

Author

Horner, Winifred Bryan.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1988.

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Details

Description

xvii, 462 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• English language > Rhetoric
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• English language > Rhetoric
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Rhetorik
• Rhétorique > manuels d'enseignement
• Anglais (langue) > Rhétorique
• Rhétorique antique

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Foreword by Edward P.J. Corbett -- Preface -- Ch. 1. An introduction to classical rhetoric: What is rhetoric? -- The ancient world -- Classical rhetoric: Invention -- Arrangement -- Style -- Memory -- Presentation -- Kinds of rhetoric -- A classical education -- Classical rhetoric for the twentieth century -- Pt. 1. Invention: Ch. 2. Formutlating a thesis: Exploring the subject: Fact -- Essence -- Quality -- Finding your thesis: Narrowing your thesis -- Guiding your readers -- Using topic sentences -- The hard kind of patriotism / Adlai Stevenson -- Ch. 3. Establishing credibility and appealing to your audience: Ethos: establishing credibility: Ways of establishing credibility as a writer -- Ethical concerns -- Pathos: Appealing to your audience: Analyzing an audience -- Shaping an audience -- Professions for women / Virginia Woolf -- Ch. 4. Discovering ideas: definition and classification: Definition: The essential definition -- Checking the validity of a definition -- When to define -- Extending a definition -- Using definition in writing -- Zeroing in on science fiction / Gary Goshgarian -- Classification: Genus and species -- Using classification and division in writing -- The dividing principle -- Elaborating on classifications and divisions -- On weekend guests / Russell Lynes -- Ch. 5. Discovering ideas: comparison and contrast, cause and effect: Comparison and contrast: Logical comparison -- Rhetorical comparison and contrast -- Using comparison and contrast in writing -- Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- Cause and effect: Kinds of causes -- Rhetorical cause and effect -- On magic in medicine / Lewis Thomas -- Ch. 6. Finding good reasons: Logical reasoning: Deductiona nd induction -- Deduction -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence -- The Toulmin model -- Induction -- Rhetorical reasoning: The enthymeme -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain -- The maxim -- The example -- The brown wasps / Loren Eiseley -- Ch. 7. Using outside resources: Descriptions: Using the senses
• -- Using perspective -- Narration -- In New Mexico: visions along the Amtrak line -- Statistics: Terminology -- Using statistics in writing -- Authority: Using authority in writing -- Vitamin E in the hands of creative physicians / Ruth Adams and Frank Murray -- Conducting interviews -- Ch. 8. Avoiding fallacies: Material fallacies: Faulty hidden generalization -- Insufficient sampling -- Unrepresentative sampling -- Logical fallacies: Faulty cause -- Either/or fallacy -- The rigged question -- Equivocation -- Psychological fallacies: Appeal to pity -- Ad hominen -- Appeal to force -- Bandwagon -- Appeal to ceremony or setting -- Appeal to authority -- Appeal to tradition -- Appeal to ignorance -- Appeal to humor -- Name-calling -- The checkers speech / Richard M. Nixon -- Pt. 2. Arrangement: Ch. 9. Structuring the essay: Opening: With a quotation -- With a question -- With an anecdote -- With a thesis statement -- Providing background information -- Defining the terms and explaining the issues -- Presenting the thesis -- Giving proof -- Answering opposing arguments -- Concluding -- Evolution as fact and theory / Stephen Jay Gould -- Pt. 3. Style: Ch. 10. Achieving clarity and appropriateness: Clarity: Increasing your vocabulary -- Using words for good effect -- Coherence -- Appropriateness: Level of style -- Stylistic choices -- Sexist languages -- Why handguns must be outlawed / Nan Desuka -- Ch. 11. Using figures of speech: Tropes: Metaphors -- Simile -- Synecdoche -- Metonymy -- Personification -- Hyperbole -- Litotes -- Irony -- Oxymoron and paradox -- Rhetorical questions -- Onomatopoeia -- Schemes: Balance -- Word order -- Addition -- Omission -- Repetition -- Sound -- Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy -- Learning from models: Exercises in sentence imitation -- Exercises in paraphrasing -- Pt. 4. Memory: Ch. 12. Tapping available resources: Books: The dust jacket -- The title page -- The table of contents -- Prefaces and introductions -- References. bibliographies and notes -- The index
• Skimming a book -- The library: The card catalog -- Other catalogs -- Catalog cards -- Locating books -- Finding journal and magazine articles -- Finding newspaper articles -- Databases -- Reference books -- Other library resources -- Personal experience -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Pt. 5. Presentation: Ch. 13. The research paper: Selecting a subject -- Finding material: Bibliography cards -- Taking notes: Note cards -- Writing the first draft and incorporating source material: Summarizing and paraphrasing -- Quoting -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Explanatory references -- Preparing the final draft: Heading and title -- Pagination -- Listing references -- Citing sources -- Some matters of punctuation and mechanics: Titles -- Names -- Numbers -- Quotations -- Anorexia nervosa: dieting and dying / Student Paper -- Ch. 14. Other common forms of college writing: The short paper about literature: Selecting a subject -- Rereading to focus on your subject -- Providing textual support -- Gesture in A doll's house / Student Paper -- The essay exam: Preparing for an exam -- Taking an exam -- Epilogue: On rhetoric and wrestling / Plato -- On writing / Quintilian -- On friendship / Aristotle -- Glossary -- Index

ISBN

• 0312002521
• 9780312002527

LCCN

87060578

OCLC

• ocm17759512
• 17759512
• SCSB-1720273

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library