Weaver R. Ehtics of Rhetoric. The Phaedrus an the nature of rhetoric

Greensboro: University of North Carolina, 2006. — 8 p. The AP Language and Composition Exam places strong emphasis on students’ ability to analyze texts rhetorically and to use rhetoric effectively as they compose essay responses. It’s an important question for teachers, therefore, to consider what students need to know about this often misunderstood term in order to write...

Oxford University Press, 2001. — 856 p. — ISBN 0-195-12595-9. Rhetoric is one of the Western world's oldest discipline. From ancient Greece and Rome to the modern era, the art of persuasion has been used, discussed and debated for over 24 hundred years. In recent times, scholars have renewed their attention to rhetoric as a way of understanding many areas of culture and social...