Language Arts & Disciplines : Rhetoric

In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England’s late Middle Ages—the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning—D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms. more...

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In this second edition of the highly successful Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction , Ann Thomson has updated the book to include new examples which will guide students through the processes of critical reasoning. more...

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We all engage in the process of reasoning, but we not always pay attention to whether we are doing it well. This book offers the opportunity to practice reasoning in a clear-headed and critical way, with the aims of developing an awareness of the importance of reasoning well, and of improving the reader's skill in analysing and evaluating arguments. more...

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A study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation. more...

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The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies of postmodernism impinge, significantly and daily, on the practice of the Writing Program Administrator. WPAs work in spaces where they must assume responsibility for a multifaceted program, a diverse curriculum, instructors with varying pedagogies and technological expertise—and where they must position their program in relation to a university with its own conflicted mission, and a state with its unpredictable views of accountability and assessment. more...

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