Rhetoric Review Apr 2012

Rhetorical Delivery as Strategy: Rebuilding the Fifth Canon from Practitioner Stories

Jim Ridolfo University of Cincinnati

Abstract

While a number of scholars have discussed a need to retheorize the fifth canon in the age of the digital (K. Welch; Trimbur; DeVoss and Porter), the field lacks empirical research on rhetorical delivery itself (Rude). By examining one case example from a larger research project, this article explores how practitioner stories can challenge and expand existing theoretical frameworks of rhetorical delivery to include insights from practitioners' knowledge. This article argues that gathering qualitative case examples is a useful, though by no means exhaustive, methodological research framework for studying rhetorical delivery.

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Rhetoric Review
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2012-04-01
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2012.652034
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