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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"rhetorical invention"”.
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… endeavors. This study compares and contrasts the rhetorical efforts of Evangeline Booth (the American Commander of the Salvation Army), Aimee Semple McPherson (founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel), and Dorothy Day (co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement). I argue that …
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A Comparison of Effectiveness of Structured and Non-Structured Strategies of Rhetorical Invention for Written Argumentation Produced by Community College Students
… has resulted in the renewal of interest in rhetorical invention. There is no uniformity among researchers and professionals about the optimal conditions preceding the composing process, especially among college students. This study was intended to explore the effectiveness of structured …
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The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Early American Discourse 1767-1801: Toward a Theory of Common Sense
What are the rhetorical and philosophical implications of common sense in colonial America during the time immediately preceding, during, and following the American Revolution? A study of seminal texts from the Classical era, the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution will reveal the uses of …
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Black and blue: A metaphoric criticism
… investigate the ways in which blues lyrics apply rhetorical invention, specifically metaphor. Analysis of a sample of songs from the Blues Hall of Fame first explores how classical rhetorical devices are utilized in blues lyrics; Secondly, through metaphoric criticism the unique idiom of the blues …
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Reintroducing Invention to Innovation: Investigating the White Space in Marketing Innovation
… project investigates the relationship between rhetorical theory and marketing innovation as practiced in the consumer packaged goods industry. Marketing innovation, or the development of new products, product features (including packaging and messaging), and services, is a process-heavy …
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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… the edition's elaborate utilization of the rhetorical practices of artificial memory and related concepts of rhetorical invention. It demonstrates that these rhetorical practices were chosen and implemented for their inherent structural appropriateness for the cultivation of prudence, or …
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Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
… Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing an explicitly political autobiography while avoiding the interpellation of her personal narrative into a heroic account of legal triumph. To this end, I examine two modes of truth-telling that appear in An …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… antebellum citizenship, cultural education, and rhetorical invention through the historical lens of ""the frontier."" The antebellum frontier is uniquely suited for rhetorical criticism because it was a process of both deeply symbolic national imagining and brute material development; it created …
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'My Makyng Thow Wryte More Trewe': rhetorical chorus in medieval and digital spaces
… which obscures the nuanced differences between rhetorical group activities: cooperation, concert, alliance, interface, harmony, disharmony, counterpoint, breach. Rather, the individual and the collaborative can intersect, but not only by providing direct feedback to the original speaker (LeFevre …
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The continuing image of African victimage : Ali A. Mazrui's The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
… that the documentary film is an inherently rhetorical medium. The documentary film The Africans: A Triple Heritage is studied because of its blatently subjective tone. This series perpetuates a rhetorical image of the natives of the Continent of Africa. That image is the African as victim. …