There were seven styles of speech that Hermogenes identified that also had a lasting impact on rhetoric and public speaking.

Rhetoric, once taught as a cornerstone of an aristocratic classical education, is to be revived as a university masters degree course. The MA in Rhetoric, to be launched by the University of Central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Rhetoric' has a bad rap – but some of the original rhetoricians' techniques can actually help foster productive conversations.

I was fascinated a few years ago to learn the initial meaning in the Greek agora and among its citizens of "rhetoric." But first, what do we now mean by the term? Alva wrote recently about cigarette ...

Robin Reames is a professor of rhetoric who teaches in the English department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Below, Robin shares five key insights from her new book, The Ancient Art of ...

Grounded in humanistic inquiry and responsive to contemporary challenges, the Rhetoric, Theory and Culture graduate and doctoral programs bring together faculty expertise across fields such as ...

Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin, and receives ARC moneys to study the history of philosophy and its practices. Thanks here go to Mr NS and Dr WA. A concerned friend recently told me of an ...

If the enemies of truth employ the arts of persuasion, then lovers of truth have no choice but to employ them more effectively. In the book, you identify the key communication skills of five renowned ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses civil rhetoric with Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse and Ariela Schachter of Washington University in St. Louis. We're now going to ...

Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In ...