The Rhetorical ActDesigned to improve students performance and their ability to act as sophisticated consumers of rhetoric, this highly-regarded text treats the rhetorical action as the joint creation of rhetor and audience, emphasizing the audiences active, participatory role. |
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Rhetorical Acts | 7 |
The Discipline of Rhetoric | 13 |
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