Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing Nasta,9780321093844

Everyday Use : Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing Nasta

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ISBN13: 9780321093844
ISBN10: 0321093844
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Pub. Date: 2005-01-12
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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

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