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Cotemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric

Waveland Press, 1985

1 review

Waveland Pr Inc, 2006

Best emmersion into these i ideas i could have ever asked 4!
This was an amazing book! The authors do a wonderful job of formatting a book for the beginning learner to understand! I highly recommend it!

Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory

1 review
Karen A. Foss; Sonja K. Foss & Cindy L. Griffin

Waveland Press, 2006

Graduate Student of Feminist Rhetorical Theory
This book is a nice companion to the analysis provided in the Foss, Foss, & Griffin Feminist Rhetorical Theory. It provides excerpts from actual works by the authors reviewed in Feminist Rhetorical Theory. It is a must for beginning students to segue into the subject.

Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration & Practice

6 reviews

Waveland Press, 1995

A Best Textbook for a Course on Rhetorical Criticism
I have used Sonja Foss' RHETORICAL CRITICISM: EXPLORATION & PRACTICES as a textbook for my Rhetorical Criticism class in the past three consecutive years. Among many other choices of textbooks, I find this one to have more strength and most suited for my students and my teaching style. First, the layout of the book is very easy for students to approach. It proceeds from traditional to current ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric

1 review
Sonja K.; Foss, Karen A.; Trapp, Robert Foss

Waveland Press, Incorporated, 1985

A Perspective on Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric
The most striking element of Foss, Foss, and Trapp's Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric is the way in which the writers enmesh the autobiographical with the rhetorical. Rather than taking the typical approach of featuring a timeline for the development of rhetorical history,the authors begin each chapter with a detailed and fascinating narration of life experiences that shaped and constrained ...

Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World

7 reviews
Sonja K. Foss, Karen A. Foss

Waveland Press, 1993

It's not like the others -- and that's the point
I've read and taught from many different texts on public speaking. If you need or want a traditional approach to public speaking, then you have dozens from which to choose. This text takes a refreshingly different route. The authors stress the relationship between the speaker and the audience, and emphatically do NOT define communication as persuasion. Instead of focusing on the speaker's ...

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation

14 reviews
Sonja Foss, William Waters

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Extremely helpful
Destination Dissertation presents an attempt to demystify the process of conducting, writing and presenting original research, completing dissertations and making the transition to journal articles. The travel metaphor is creative and one to which all of us, as scholars, can relate. The format is cohesive and the chapters flow according to the process of the dissertation format. The techniques ...

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric
Sonja K. Foss, Robert Trapp

Waveland Press, 2001

These 25 selections allow the reader to sample the multiple voices contributing to the creation of knowledge through rhetoric. Exposure to the theorists' ideas in their own words provides a richer, more meaningful understanding. While the same number of pages are devoted to each theorist, in some cases one lengthy essay is included that captures the core ideas of a theorist; in other instances, several examples are offered. The extensive ...