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Rhetoric

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Aristotle's Rhetoric
  2. Bibliography for Rhetoric and Professional Communication
  3. Bibliography of Victorian Preaching
  4. Castro Speech Database
  5. Debate Central
  6. Executive Presentation Skills
  7. Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
  8. Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  9. Happy Fun Communication Land
  10. In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
  11. Online Audio Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
  12. Oppression of Prophecy: Quaker Women in Late Seventeenth Century Yorkshire
  13. Rhetoric and Composition
  14. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

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Aristotle's Rhetoric
Discusses the impact of Aristotle on the development of the art of rhetoric.
     Author: Rapp, Christof
     Subjects: rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808
     Resource type: directory
Bibliography for Rhetoric and Professional Communication
A bibliography of rhetoric resources searchable by selected topics or journals, or alphabetically by author's surname.
     Author: Thune, W Scott
     Subjects: rhetoric, writing links
     DeweyClass: 808
     Resource type: bibliography
Bibliography of Victorian Preaching
References to primary sources, nineteenth century materials, and twentieth century studies from Charles Spurgeon, John Newman, and George MacDonald. Also includes bibliographical information for general studies, adapted from the bibliography of 'The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain'.
     Author: Ellison, Robert H.
     Subjects: baptism, christian texts, rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 251
     Resource type: bibliography
Castro Speech Database
Speeches by Fidel Castro from 1959, translated into English, and arranged by year, and then by date of delivery.
     Author: University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: cuba, marxism, quotations, rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808.51
     Resource type: documents
Debate Central
A guide to policy and parliamentary debating. Gives instruction on how to influence through argument, improve public speaking skills, coach, and research specific topics. Also offers video footage of novice, intermediate, and advanced policy debate.
     Author: University of Vermont
     Subjects: rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808.53
     Resource type: guide
Executive Presentation Skills
List of links to books, websites and organisations offering guidance on how to enhance public speaking skills, analyse an audience, support and outline points, and attain an effective method of delivery.
     Author: Shapira, Allison
     Subjects: rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808.51
     Resource type: index
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
Text of over 100 speeches by Madeline Albright, Mother Teresa, Mary Robinson and Naomi Wolf.
     Author: Sweet Briar College
     Subjects: rhetoric, women writers, women's studies
     DeweyClass: 305.4
     Resource type: documents
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Online guide which describes and gives examples of techniques used to improve the effectiveness and clarity of writing, adapted from a print version published in 1980. Covers a range of devices including anaphora, conduplicatio, diacope, metanoia, and procatalepsis.
     Author: Harris, Robert A.
     Subjects: rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808
     Resource type: non-fiction ebook
Happy Fun Communication Land
A tutorial and reference resource supporting the study of communication theory and history. Includes citations, glossaries, focus sections on specific topics including paradigmatic and syntagmatic analyses, and questions on semiotics, culture, codes, speech and mass communication.
     Author: Dillman, Richard
     Subjects: communication studies, rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 302.2
     Resource type: guide
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
Searchable glossaries of terms relating to literary criticism, rhetoric, linguistics, and politics, enabling academics to understand interdisciplinary terminology. Definitions are illustrated by quotes from authors, and the resource is supplemented by a bibliography of all works cited.
     Author: Radney, J Randolph
     Subjects: linguistics, literary studies, political science, rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808
     Resource type: dictionary
Online Audio Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
Collection of audio resources of speeches and lectures delivered on the Berkeley campus by notable figures such as Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, Michel Foucault, and the leaders of the Free Speech Movement. Also includes historic speeches by Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
     Author: Library, University of California, Berkeley
     Subjects: rhetoric, united states history from 1900
     DeweyClass: 973.9
     Resource type: documents, sound collection
Oppression of Prophecy: Quaker Women in Late Seventeenth Century Yorkshire
Evangelical and prophetic texts by the seventeenth century Quaker writers Judith Boulbie and Mary Waite.
     Author: Emory Women Writers Resource Project
     Subjects: christian texts, rhetoric, women writers
     DeweyClass: 808.89
     Resource type: documents
Rhetoric and Composition
An index of resources dealing with rhetoric. Includes works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms.
     Author: Carnegie Mellon University
     Subjects: rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808
     Resource type: index
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Topics include persuasive appeals (logos, pathos, ethos), branches of oratory (judicial, eliberative, epideictic), canons of rhetoric, figures of speech and rhetorical pedagogy. It also shows relationships and groupings of terms within and across the various levels of the rhetorical curriculum.
     Author: Burton, Gideon
     Subjects: renaissance history, rhetoric
     DeweyClass: 808.5
     Resource type: guide