Office Of Assertion

Author: Scott F. Crider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516307
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Scott F. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. A short but serious book of rhetoric, it is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a how-to manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the purpose - educational, political, and philosophical - of such improvement.

The Office of Assertion

Author: Scott F Crider
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497646766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, “That’s just rhetoric!” But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student, as an effective communicator, to reflect qualities of soul through argument. In that sense, rhetoric is much more than a technical skill. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. This short but serious book is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a “how-to” manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the final purposes —educational, political, and philosophical—of such improvement.

Office Of Assertion

Author: Scott F. Crider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1932236457
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Assertion

Author: Sanford Goldberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732481
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Presents an account of the speech act of assertion and defends the view that it is answerable to a constitutive norm and is suited to explaining assertions connections to other philosophical topics.

The Office of Assertion

Author: Scott Forrest Crider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610171243
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description

Assertion

Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957300X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is, particularly in light of relativist views of truth, and how assertion is governed by epistemic norms.

The Art of Persuasion

Author: Scott Crider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985565985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Introductory book on rhetoric

Rhetoric and Reality

Author: James A. Berlin
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080931360X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Intended for teachers of college composition, this history of major and minor developments in the teaching of writing in twentieth-century American colleges employs a taxonomy of theories based on the three epistemological categories (objective, subjective, and transactional) dominating rhetorical theory and practice. The first section of the book provides an overview of the three theories, specifically their assumptions and rhetorics. The main chapters cover the following topics: (1) the nineteenth-century background, on the formation of the English department and the subsequent relationship of rhetoric and poetic; (2) the growth of the discipline (1900-1920), including the formation of the National Council of Teachers of English, the appearance of the major schools of rhetoric, the efficiency movement, graduate education in rhetoric, undergraduate courses and the Great War; (3) the influence of progressive education (1920-1940), including the writing program and current-traditional rhetoric, liberal culture, and expressionistic and social rhetoric; (4) the communication emphasis (1940-1960), including the communications course, the founding of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, literature and composition, linguistics and composition, and the revival of rhetoric; and (5) the renaissance of rhetoric and major rhetorical approaches (1960-1975), including contemporary theories based on the three epistemic categories. A final chapter briefly surveys developments through 1987. (JG)

Assertion and Conditionals

Author: Anthony Appiah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521304115
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric

Author: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This book covers criticism of the persuasion that surrounds us in daily life; speeches at political conventions, editorials in newspapers, essays in magazines of opinion, debates in Congress, state legislatures, and political campaigns, and all of the efforts by which protesters and reformers justify their views. The authors focus attention on responding intelligently to this rhetoric. They view rhetorical criticism not as a matter of being critical or of attacking rhetoric but rather, as the process of analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of persuasive uses of language.