Speech & Rhetorical Studies Resources
"Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two." http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
vSilva Rhetoricae: The Forrest of Rhetoric
"provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, [this] is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)." http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
offers links to the classics of rhetoric (Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine), to online journals on rhetoric and communication and writing resources for scholars. Provided by EServer "a unique website where 226 scholars, readers, artists and writers gather to share and discuss their works," currently being sponsored by the University of Washington. http://eserver.org/rhetoric/
offers concise definitions of the five cannons of rhetoric and the subheadings and theories they encompass. From the Advanced Composition and Rhetoric at Georgia State University. http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwrnc/5canons.htm
from Armstrong Atlantic State University. http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/term6.htm
"Rhetoric Review regularly publishes scholarly and historical studies, theoretical and practical articles, provocative pieces on the profession, humorous repartee, substantial review essays, and reflections." Edited by Dr. Theresa Enos, of the University of Arizona. Back issues may be browsed, discount subscriptions for students are available. http://members.aol.com/SBorrowman/RR.html
vRhetoric Resources at Tech (RRT)
"The...RRT site offer[s] an annotated and hypertextual introduction to the essential ideas and key figures within one of the most important and dynamic disciplinary traditions in the Western academy." Includes very useful links to other rhetoric resources. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures/ramus.html
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