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Autor:
Enos, Richard Leo
Publikováno v:
Rhetoric Review, 2002 Jan 01. 21(1), 95-98.
Externí odkaz:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/466118
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
This book analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed i
Autor:
Raymond A. Lutzky, Merrill D. Whitburn, Joshua L. Comer, Lisa M. Litterio, Michael A. Rancourt, Gaines S. Hubbell
Publikováno v:
Rhetoric Review. 30:389-405
The professional life of elocutionist Alvina Winker Paterson suggests that previous views about women being excluded from rhetorical activities in the earlier twentieth century need to be revised. Like many other contemporary women, Winkler Paterson
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 23:428-447
Rensselaer’s Technical Writers’ Institute, the first program of its kind, had a profound impact on technical communication. It enabled technical communicators without formal education in the field to gain important knowledge, provided a forum for
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 10:105-129
Although conventional views about late nineteenth-century rhetoric highlight a shift from oratory to composition and from classical rhetoric to a “new” rhetoric with origins in Scottish rhetoricians (with a loss of scholarship and quality), James
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Journal for the History of Rhetoric. 10:105-129
Although conventional views about late nineteenth-century rhetoric highlight a shift from oratory to composition and from classical rhetoric to a “new” rhetoric with origins in Scottish rhetoricians (with a loss of scholarship and quality), James
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 34:55-70
Although conventional views about nineteenth‐century rhetoric highlight a shift from oratory to composition and from classical rhetoric with origins in Cicero and Quintilian to a “new” rhetoric with origins in Campbell, Blair, and Whately (with
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Journal of Business Communication. 12:32-36
This article presents some results from an experiment evaluating a telephone information program. The program proved useful in conveying significant news, but a number of problems were encountered. The author recommends additional study in the area.
Publikováno v:
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 8:349-358
The ornate style practiced before the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century too often led to obscurity and verbal games rather than clarity and the pursuit of truth. In reacting against ornateness, however, scientists developed the ideal o
Autor:
Merrill D. Whitburn
Publikováno v:
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 7:143-149
Excerpts from Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, published in 1667, are used to explore the parallels existing between the rise of modern scientific and technical writing and the rise of seventeenth century science. The author of this paper