Rhetoric - What, Why, and How?

by Skyline English Department

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First off, rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the ability of writers and speakers to inform, persuade and motivate. This textbook, Skyline’s Writing & Reading Rhetoric, was written by English teachers at Skyline College with contributions from our Librarians and ESOL teachers with the goal of providing clear and consistent instruction on how to recognize and apply successful writing, reading, and research strategies.

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Publisher
Skyline College
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Introduction to Rhetoric
  8. 1.1: Overview of the 15 Concepts
  9. 2: Critical Reading
  10. 2.1: Before Reading Strategies
  11. 2.2: While Reading Strategies
  12. 2.3: After Reading Strategies
  13. 2.4: Faculty Texts
  14. 3: Critical Thinking
  15. 3.1: Breaking down critical thinking into categories
  16. 3.2: Bloom's Taxonomy
  17. 3.3: Applying higher and lower levels of thinking in writing
  18. 4: Paper Topics
  19. 4.1: Text-Based Approach
  20. 4.2: General Paper Guidelines
  21. 4.3: Creating Paper Topics
  22. 5: The Writing Process
  23. 5.1: Writing as a Process
  24. 5.2: Freewriting
  25. 5.3: Brainstorming
  26. 5.4: Journalist Questions
  27. 5.5: Listing
  28. 5.6: Clustering/Mapping
  29. 5.7: Outlining
  30. 5.8: Drafting
  31. 5.9: Revising
  32. 5.10: Creating Essay Titles
  33. 5.11: Editing/Proofreading
  34. 5.12: Final Revision Example
  35. 5.13: Essay Checklist
  36. 6: MLA Conventions
  37. 6.1: General Formatting
  38. 6.2: Titles and Authors
  39. 6.3: In-Text Citations
  40. 6.4: Works Cited Guidelines and Example
  41. 6.5: Creating a Works Cited List
  42. 7: Evaluating Writing
  43. 7.1: Workshopping
  44. 7.2: Rubrics
  45. 7.3: Students Responding to Instructor Feedback
  46. 7.4: Grading Standards
  47. 8: Thesis Statements
  48. 8.1: Thesis Statements - simple and complex
  49. 8.2: Narrowing Down a Topic
  50. 8.3: Text-Based Thesis Statement
  51. 8.4: Creating and Revising a Thesis Statement
  52. 8.5: Where to Put a Thesis
  53. 9: Introductions and Conclusions
  54. 9.1: Introductions
  55. 9.2: Conclusions
  56. 10: Paragraphs
  57. 10.1: PIE Paragraphs
  58. 10.2: Topic Sentences
  59. 10.3: Transitions
  60. 11: Integrating Sources
  61. 11.1: Plagiarism and the Honesty Pledge
  62. 11.2: Quoting and Paraphrasing
  63. 11.3: Smoothly Integrating Quotations
  64. 11.4: Researching
  65. 12: Timed Writing
  66. 13: Literature
  67. 13.1: Fiction and Drama - types, terms and sample essay
  68. 13.2: Poetry - types and terms
  69. 13.3: Poetry Chart and Practice
  70. 13.4: Sample essay on a poem
  71. 13.5: Literary Theories
  72. 14: Style
  73. 14.1: Style Chapter Overview
  74. 14.2: Simplicity
  75. 14.3: Point of View
  76. 14.4: Word Choice
  77. 14.5: Sentence Crafting
  78. 14.6: Sentence Combining
  79. 14.7: Parallelism
  80. 14.8: Commonly Misused and Misspelled Words
  81. 15: Grammar
  82. 15.1: Grammar chapter overview
  83. 15.2: Adjectives and Adverbs
  84. 15.3: Appositives
  85. 15.4: Articles
  86. 15.5: Commas
  87. 15.6: Contractions
  88. 15.7: Coordinators
  89. 15.8: Dangling Modifiers
  90. 15.9: Fragments
  91. 15.10: Possessives
  92. 15.11: Run-Together Sentences
  93. 15.12: Subject and Verb Identification
  94. 15.13: Subject-Verb Agreement
  95. 15.14: Subordinators
  96. 15.15: Verb Tenses
  97. 16: Non-Native Speakers
  98. 16.1: Non-Native English Speakers chapter overview
  99. 16.2: Advice specifically designed for non-native English speakers
  100. Back Matter
  101. Detailed Licensing
  102. Detailed Licensing