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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lorraine higgins”
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  • Learning to Rival

    A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry

    by Linda Flower, Elenore Long, Lorraine Higgins ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
    Learning to Rival tells the inside story of college and high school writers learning to "rival"--to actively seek rival hypotheses and negotiate alternative perspectives on charged questions. It shows how this interdisciplinary literate practice alters with the context of use and how, in learning to rival in school and out, students must often negotiate conflicts not apparent to instructors.This ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • What to Talk About

    On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss

    by Christopher Colin, Robert Baedeker ...
    Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday cake in the shower.But no more. With What to Talk About you'll learn to speak—fluently, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Academic and Business Writing

    by Maggie Sokolik ...
    What characterizes academic writing and business writing? What are the differences between the two genres? Where do they intersect? This book offers an overview of the features of both styles of writing, as well as opportunities to improve your writing skills in a wide variety of contexts.This book was written to accompany the free online course of the same name, the second of two courses offered ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Persuasion

    Win People Over with Effective Communications Skills

    by Steve Booth-Butterfield Ed.D. ...
    Get your way . . . the smart way.Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner.By using time-honored tools of communication, body language, and psychology, readers can use persuasion to do good things like convince ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

    by George A. Kennedy ...
    Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion.Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition. From its development in ancient ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Letter Writing Guide for Scholars, Lovers & Workers

    Improve Your Skills and Enjoy the Art of Letter Writing

    by Yinka Amuda ...
    This book contains a variety of letters aimed at partners/courting couples or those in the process of developing a relationship with the opposite sex; covering several aspects of correspondence between a romantically involved man and woman.This book also covers formal letter writing for scholars. With this book a reliable system of letter writing is gained by young student of English Language.What ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Listening to the Logos

    Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

    by Christopher Lyle Johnstone ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to AristotleIn Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

    by Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus

    by Andrea Tschemplik ...
    Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory conclusion about the definition of knowledge. Tschemplik argues that understanding this aporetic dialogue in light of the fact that it was conducted with two noted mathematicians shows that for Plato, mathematics was not the paradigm for philosophy. She ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Voting Deliberatively

    FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign

    by Mary E. Stuckey ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 1936 election, persistent economic problems, a controversial domestic agenda, and the perception of a weak foreign policy were chipping away at public support. The president faced unrelenting criticism from both the Left and the Right, and it seemed ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

    An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

    by Michael Burke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

    $27.89 USD