Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing Nasta

by Roskelly, Hephzibah; Jolliffe, David

• ISBN13: 9780321093844
• ISBN10: 0321093844
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives	1	(32)
Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitions and Examples	3	(2)
What Does ``Being Skilled at Rhetoric'' Mean?	5	(1)
Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle	6	(9)
Key #1: Understanding Persona	8	(3)
Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience	11	(1)
Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment	12	(3)
Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle: Rhetoric Occurs in a Context	15	(5)
Key #4: Understanding Context	16	(1)
Key #5: Understanding Intention	17	(1)
Key #6: Understanding Genre	18	(2)
Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community	20	(9)
Rhetoric and Citizenship	20	(3)
Rhetoric and Community	23	(2)
Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption	25	(4)
Interchapter 1	29	(4)
Using the Five Traditional Canons of Rhetoric	33	(54)
Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals	34	(2)
Invention	36	(1)
Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist's Questions	36	(3)
Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke's Pentad	39	(3)
Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme	42	(4)
Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics	46	(4)
The Basic Topics	46	(2)
The Common Topics	48	(2)
Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview	50	(1)
Arrangement	51	(5)
Genres	52	(1)
Functional Parts	53	(1)
Questions About the Parts	54	(2)
Style	56	(23)
Style and Situation	57	(1)
Style and Jargon	58	(1)
Are You and I Okay?	59	(1)
Style and Contractions	59	(1)
Style and the Passive Voice	59	(1)
Dimensions of the Study of Style: Sentences, Words, and Figures	60	(1)
Sentences	60	(3)
Parallel Structure	63	(3)
Words	66	(1)
General Versus Specific Words	67	(1)
Formal Versus Informal Words	68	(1)
Latinate Versus Anglo-Saxon Words	69	(2)
Common Terms Versus Slang or Jargon	71	(1)
Denotation Versus Connotation	72	(1)
Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes	72	(1)
Schemes Involving Balance	73	(1)
Schemes Involving Interruption	74	(1)
Schemes Involving Omission	75	(1)
Schemes Involving Repetition	76	(1)
Tropes Involving Comparisons	77	(1)
Tropes Involving Word Play	78	(1)
Tropes Involving Overstatement or Understatement	78	(1)
Tropes Involving the Management of Meaning	78	(1)
Memory	79	(1)
Delivery	80	(3)
Interchapter 2	83	(4)
Rhetoric and the Writer	87	(34)
Writing as Process: Making the Right Moves for Context	88	(1)
Writing as a Rhetorical Process	89	(5)
Inventing	90	(1)
Investigating	90	(1)
Planning	91	(1)
Drafting	92	(1)
Consulting	92	(1)
Revising	93	(1)
Editing	93	(1)
Real Writers at Work: Cases for Studying Writing and Rhetoric	94	(20)
Erica: Slow Starter	94	(3)
Erica's Intention and Invention	97	(1)
Apply Erica's Solution	98	(3)
Chan: Confused About Context	101	(2)
Chan, Context, and Notes	103	(3)
Apply Chan's Solution	106	(1)
Tasha, Lewis, and Susan: A Group at Work on Writing	106	(3)
Nell: The Rhetorical Reviser	109	(2)
You Pull It All Together	111	(2)
Using What You Read	113	(1)
Revising Your First Effort	113	(1)
Revising for Persona	114	(1)
Revising for Audience	115	(1)
Revising Subject	116	(1)
Revising Evidence	116	(3)
Interchapter 3	119	(2)
Rhetoric and the Reader	121	(28)
Predicting What's Next	122	(4)
Understanding How Readers Predict	125	(1)
Rosenblatt and Interaction: Two Kinds of Reading	126	(5)
Rosenblatt, Reading, and Rhetoric	129	(1)
Rhetorical Analysis of Chaos	130	(1)
Matching Experience and Intention	131	(5)
Rhetorical Analysis: You Try It	136	(4)
Building the Reader's Repertoire	140	(2)
Reading Your Own Writing	142	(5)
Interchapter 4	147	(2)
Readers as Writers, Writers as Readers: Making Connections	149	(30)
Reading and Writing: Different? Similar?	151	(1)
The Literacy Memory	152	(1)
The Process of Making Meaning: Readers as Writers	153	(4)
More About Prediction and Revision in Reading	157	(2)
Prediction and Revision in Writing: Writers as Readers	159	(1)
More About Prediction and Revision in Writing	160	(1)
Voice and Rhetoric	161	(1)
What We Hear When We Read and Write	162	(13)
The Logical Appeal: Logos	163	(2)
The Ethical Appeal: Ethos	165	(2)
The Emotional Appeal: Pathos	167	(2)
The Appeals Combined	169	(6)
Interchapter 5	175	(4)
Rhetoric in Narrative	179	(30)
Character	182	(6)
Rhetorical Choices for Character	183	(1)
Flat and Round, Static and Dynamic	184	(2)
Character and the Pentad	186	(2)
Setting	188	(4)
Summary and Scenic Narration	191	(1)
Conflict and Plot	192	(6)
Tragedy Versus Comedy	194	(1)
Conflict in Decision Making	194	(1)
Conflict in Relationships	195	(1)
Conflict with the Elements	195	(1)
Conflict and the Pentad	196	(2)
Protagonist, Antagonist	198	(1)
Narrator: Point of View	198	(6)
First-Person Narration	198	(2)
Third-Person Narration	200	(1)
Second-Person Narration	201	(1)
Reliable and Unreliable Narrators	202	(1)
Narrators in Poems	202	(2)
Theme	204	(2)
Theme and the Pentad	204	(1)
Symbols	205	(1)
Images	205	(1)
Diction	205	(1)
Syntax	205	(1)
A Final Word About Narrative---and About Rhetoric	206	(1)
Interchapter 6	207	(2)
READINGS	209	(26)
``On the Duty of Civil Disobedience''	210	(16)
Henry David Thoreau
``It's a Woman's World''	226	(2)
Eavan Boland
``Everyday Use''	228	(7)
Alice Walker
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms	235	(12)
Credits	247	(4)
Index	251