RWS 5311 - Dura (Persuasion and Argument): Rhetoric & Writing

 "The faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."

   Aristotle

Logic in Argumentative Writing  Purdue OWL

Arguments  Writing Center of UNC

Tips on Writing a Persuasive Paper

Persuasion and Context: The Pragmatics of Academic Metadiscourse by Ken Hyland

The Role of Evidence in Argumentative Writing  by Mary Gleason

The Meanings of "Audience" by Douglas B. Park

Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion  Purdue OWL

The Rhetorical Triangle and Three Rhetorical Appeals   Furman University English Department

 Rhetorical Triangle  Written Commons

Classical Rhetoric and Technical Writing by Andrea A. Lunsford

Rhetorical Strategies in Student Persuasive Writing: Differences between Native and Non-Native English Speakers by Dana R. Ferris

Exploring Corporate Rhetoric: Metadiscourse in the CEO's Letter by Ken Hyland

American Rethoric

The Uses and Complexity of Argument Structures in Expert and Student Persuasive Writing by Joanna Crammond

Reading and Writing Descriptive and Persuasive Texts by Patricia Carrel & Ulla Connor

Models of Argumentation in Education Discourse by Richard Andrews

Argument in hypertext: Writing strategies and the problem of order in a nonsequential world by Locke Carter

Cognition, Context, and Theory Building by Linda Flowers

Films on Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform produced by the Films Media Group (FMG) containing thousands of educational videos.

The following streaming video is part of the series Models of Non-Fiction Writing. In this video Terry Jones  talks on how he tries to find an unusual angle when writing an argument and compares different approaches.

Aristotle brings light to three important aspects of the human psyche; these directly relate to a speaker’s ability to most effectively persuade a given audience in a specific situation. The three TED talks illustrate how someone can play strong on Logos, on Ethos or on Pathos.