Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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March 1981

  1. Book reviews
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    Historical Rhetoric. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources in English. Edited by Winifred Bryan Horner. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980. Pp. xii + 294. The Winged Word. Berkley Peabody. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. Pp. 562. $40.00. Averroës’ Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's “Topics,” "Rhetoric.” and “Poetics.” Edited and translated by Charles B. Butterworth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. Pp. 3d. & 206. Francis Bacon and the Style of Science. James Stephens. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. xi ‐ 188. $10.95 (Cloth).

    doi:10.1080/02773948109390602

January 1981

  1. A new way into thePhaedrusand composition: A review
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    Abstract Plato's Phaedrus; A Defense of the Philosophical Art of Writing. Ronna Burger, University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1980. 160 pp.

    doi:10.1080/02773948109390594

June 1980

  1. Book reviews
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    Critical Understandings: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism. Wayne C. Booth. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. 408. A Study of Writing. I. J. Gelb. Revised edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp. xix & 319.

    doi:10.1080/02773948009390575

March 1980

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    Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. George A. Kennedy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. 292. $18.00, paper $9.00. Ann Berthoff and the Problem of Method in Writing: A Review Essay on Forming/Thinking/Writing: The Composing Imagination (Hayden Book Co., 1978)

    doi:10.1080/02773948009390566

January 1980

  1. Book reviews
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    Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature. William J. Kennedy. New Haven, Conneticut: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. 229. The Rhetoric of Western Thought. James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist and William E. Coleman, editors. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 1978. 10.95 (paper). Hesiod and the Language of Poetry. Pietro Pucci. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. vii + 152. $9.50 (hard cover).

    doi:10.1080/02773948009390557

September 1979

  1. Book reviews
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    Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. Robert J. Fogelin. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978. Pp. 351. An Introduction to Reasoning. Stephen Toulmin, Richard Rieke, Allan Janik. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 343. Historical Linguistics. Theodora Bynon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), 1978. Pp. x + 301, 7.95 (paper).

    doi:10.1080/02773947909390551

June 1979

  1. Book reviews
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    Revising Prose. Richard A. Lanham. New York: Scribner's, 1979. Richard Lanham, Revising Prose (New York; Scribner's 1979), p. 57. Writing in Reality. James E. Miller and Stephen N. Judy. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. $4.95.

    doi:10.1080/02773947909390538
  2. A comment on Robert T. Meyer, /A Review of Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray,Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
    doi:10.1080/02773947909390540

March 1979

  1. A review
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    Research on composing: points of departure, ed. Charles R. cooper and lee Odell. Urbana, ill.: note, 1978. 203 pp.

    doi:10.1080/02773947909390528

January 1979

  1. Book reviews
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    Advocacy Advertising and Large Corporations: Social Conflict, Big Business Image, the News Media, and Public Policy. Prakash Sethi. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1977. Pp. 355. Controversy Advertising: How Advertisers Present Points of View in Public Affairs: A Worldwide Study. New York: Hastings House, 1977. Pp. 189. Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray. Preface by R. W. Burch‐field. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. 386.

    doi:10.1080/02773947909390522

September 1978

  1. A review of Hirsch'sthe philosophy of composition
    doi:10.1080/02773947809390508

June 1978

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    Decisive Writing; An Improvement Program. L. P. Driskill and Margaret Simpson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Prose Style For The Modern Writer. Robert Miles and Marc F. Bertonasco. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1977.

    doi:10.1080/02773947809390503

March 1978

  1. Book reviews
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    Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. Mina P. Shaughnessy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 311. Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Richard L. Graves. Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden Book Company, Inc., 1976. Ethics in Human Communication. Richard L. Johannesen. Columbus, Ohio: Chas. E. Merrill Pub. Co., 1975.

    doi:10.1080/02773947809390494

January 1978

  1. Book reviews
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    The Plural I: The Teaching of Writing. William E. Coles, Jr. With a Foreward by Richard Larson. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 1978. Prose Style and Critical Reading. Robert Cluett. New York: Columbia University, 1976. Pp. 316. The Language of Adam: On the Limits and Systems of Discourse. Russell Fraser. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. 255. THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE AND THE ASSAULT ON AMBIGUITY

    doi:10.1080/02773947809390486

September 1977

  1. Book reviews
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    The Little Rhetoric. Edward P. J. Corbett. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1977. Pp. 357. Process and Thought in Composition. Frank D'Angelo. Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1977. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Jacqueline de Romilly. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. vi+108.

    doi:10.1080/02773947709390477

June 1977

  1. Book reviews
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    The Aims of Interpretation. E. D. Hírsch, Jr. The University of Chicago Press, 1976. P. 177. The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria: Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World. Robert W. Smith, The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.

    doi:10.1080/02773947709390472

March 1977

  1. Book reviews
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    The Rhetoric of Western Thought, James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist, and William E. Coleman, eds. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1976.

    doi:10.1080/02773947709390463

January 1977

  1. Book reviews
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    A Civil Tongue, by Edwin Newman. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, 1976. 207 pp. $8.95.

    doi:10.1080/02773947709390457

December 1976

  1. A review
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    Strictly Speaking. Edwin Newman. New York.: Warner Books, 1974. 239 pp.

    doi:10.1080/02773947609390447

June 1976

  1. Book reviews
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    With Good Reason. S. Morris Engel, Nev York; St. Martin's Press, 1976; and Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric. Howard Kahane. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1971. The Rhetoric of Renaissance Poetry. Eds. Thomas O. Sloan and Raymond B. Waddington. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1974. A Review and Counter‐Review: Poetics, Rhetoric, and Logic: Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism. Wilbur Samuel Howell, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975.

    doi:10.1080/02773947609390442

March 1976

  1. Book reviews
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    An essay and a review: rhetorical competence A Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric, Frank J. D'Angelo. Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 1975. Pp. 183. Poetios, Rhetoric, and Logic: Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism, Wilbur Samuel Howell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature, Jonathan Culler, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.

    doi:10.1080/02773947609390436

January 1976

  1. Book review
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    Understanding Discourse: The Speech Act and Rhetorical Action, Karl R. Wallace. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Ideology, by L. B Brown. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. 208 pp. $2.95. Ideology, by L. B Brown. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. 208 pp. $2.95.

    doi:10.1080/02773947609390429