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WRIT 212:Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

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Communication and Mass Media Complete
EBSCOhost
CompPile
Research on rhetoric from 1939

Resources

Focused Topics in Rhetoric

The Politics of Resentment
Jeremy Engels examines violent rhetoric throughout America's history
Discursive Ideologies
C. H. Knoblauch. European traditions of discourse
Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness
Krista Ratcliffe
Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women
Molly Meijer Wertheimer
Traces of a Stream : Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents
Mark McBeth
Rhetoric and Demagoguery
Patricia Roberts-Miller

Reference - Terms and Examples

Silva Rhetoricae
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
Thomas O. Sloane
Sourcebook on Rhetoric
James Jasinski
Oxford Reference

Primary Sources

American Rhetoric
Speeches by politicians, social movers, and other outstanding Americans
Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s)
Joy S. Ritchie; Kate Ronald
College of Medicine Archives - Legacy Center
The Legacy Center is Drexel University College of Medicine's Archives and Special Collections
DUL Archives Digital Collections
Digitized collections from the Drexel University Libraries' Archives
Gale Databases
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Student Research

RhetTech
James Madison University
Xchanges
University of New Mexico
Young Scholars in Writing
Queen City Writers
University of Cincinnati

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