Websites with Content Featuring:

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Websites with Content Featuring Rhetoric and/or
Rhetoricians
By Kristin LaVitola
Date June 8, 2003
Assignment 3 ENG 620 Proposal Writing
NJIT Professor Elliot
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Archival Information for "Aristotle's Rhetoric"

• Site Title and URL
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer
  2002 Edition)
• http//plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries
  /aristotle-rhetoric
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Prof. Dr. Christof Rapp (Dr. Professor Berlin)
  for Stanford
• Edward N. Zalta (ed.), for Stanford.
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Although the site lacks clickable links (only a
  few), web formatting, and is wordy it does have
  definitions, lists of rhetorical works, the
  agenda and purpose of rhetoric, historical
  information, and an extensive reference and
  bibliography section.
• Ethics, logic, reason, emotions, dialect, and the
  cognitive features of language and style are all
  useful topics for technical writers.

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Aristotle

• Site Title and URL
• Aristotle
• http//www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures
  /aristotle.html
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Part 1 by Ellen Dickson, Georgia Institute of
  Technology.
• Part 2 by Brad Shepherd, Georgia Institute of
  Technology.
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Presented in a Biography / Book report format.
• Useful for an overall general review of
  Aristotles rhetoric, theories and writings.

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Rhetoric (Search word rhetoric)

• Site Title and URL
• Encyclopædia Britannica (Online)
• http//www.britannica.com/search?queryrhetoricct
  fuzzyN
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., headquartered in
  Chicago, Illinois
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• A search engine / database that provides
  definitions, books,references, articles,
  journals and web sites.

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Cicero The Genres of Rhetoric

• Site Title and URL
• Cicero on the Genres of Rhetoric
• http//www.towson.edu/tinkler/reader/cicero.html
  
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Towson.edu
• John F. Tinkler
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Abstracts from some of the texts focusing on
  rhetoric by this legendary Roman orator,
  translated into English by John F. Tinkler.
• This translation of selected Ciceronian texts
  deals with the deliberative and demonstrative
  genres good for researchers.

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Rhetoric Rhetoric and Composition

• Site Title and URL
• EServer.org Rhetoric and Composition
• http//eserver.org/rhetoric/Rhetoric and
  CompositionEServer.Org
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Geoffrey Sauer, webmaster_at_eserver.org
• tp25_at_andrew.cmu.edu
• The EServer, founded in 1990, is now based at the
  University of Washington.
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Links to classical rhetoric, articles on
  literacy and education, online journals, online
  writing centers, rhetoricians.
• Very useful resource for research although many
  links and sites do not work.

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Writing (Rhetoric), Collections and Criticismof
More Than Two Literatures

• Site Title and URL
• Suite101.com
• http//www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/808Literature
  Writing
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Creative Marketeam Canada Ltd. (doing business
  as Suite101.com)
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Easily searchable layout.Topics include Writing
  Rhetoric Rhetoric of Drama Rhetoric of Fiction,
  etc.
• Includes sections Best of Web Online Courses
  Communities Book Circle and Biz Center

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A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

• Site Title and URL
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
• http//www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.
  html
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• University of Kentucky
• Ross Scaife - scaife_at_pop.uky.edu
• (By way of University of Texas Chris Renaud
  originated Ernest Ament of Wayne State
  University)
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Glossary is simple and organized.
• Extremely useful when you are looking for the
  right rhetorical
• vocabulary word.

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An English Primer for Political Rhetoric

• Site Title and URL
• An English Primer
• A glossary translating political rhetoric into
  plain English
• http//www.lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/engl
  ish_primer.htm
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Thomas Sowell
• Appeared in National Review, Dec 31, 1985 v37
  p17(1)  
•    
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Short and sweet explanations of political
  rhetorical words and phrases.
•  
•      

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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Writing

• Site Title and URL
• http//www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/NCSWL/reports
  social.html
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Berkeley.edu
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• Contains publications that focus primarily on the
  social or cultural dimensions of writing.
• Technical Reports and Occasional Papers
  discussing Rhetoric and Writing.
• Easily searchable list - many resources for
  technical writing and proposal research.   

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The Rhetorical Nature of Academic Research
Funding

• Site Title and URL
• RHETNET
• http//www.missouri.edu/rhetnet/
• Site Credibility, Author(s), Maintained by
• Brad Mehlenbacher
• Received his PhD in Rhetoric and Document Design
  from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Usefulness / Purpose for Proposal Writers
• In an attempt to better understand the
  multifaceted relationship between academic
  researchers and funding agencies, the author
  interviewed 15 academics regarding their views,
  suggestions, and difficulties in co-ordinating
  the proposal process.
• A cyber journal for rhetoric and writing - The
  Organizational Politics of Proposal Writing.