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Engl 549/649: Supplementary Readings

1. Articles on reserve

  • Antiphon. (1968). The First Tetralogy. In Minor Attic Orators, Vol. I: Antiphon & Andocides, 53-83. Trans., K. J. Maidment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. [Loeb Classical Library.]
  • Demosthenes. (1970). The First Philippic. In A. N. W. Saunders (Ed. Trans.), Greek Political Oratory, 188-198. London: Penguin.
  • Dieter, Otto Alvin Loeb (1950). Stasis. Speech Monographs, 17: 345-369. [rept. in Edward Schiappa (Ed.), Landmark essays in classical Greek rhetoric, 211-241. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.]
  • Fleming, David. (1996). Can pictures be arguments? Argumentation and Advocacy, 33 (1): 11-22.
  • Fleming, David. (1997). Learning to link artifact and value: The arguments of student designers.  Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 2 (1): 58-84.
  • Gage, John T. (1984). An adequate epistemology for composition: Classical and modern perspectives. In Robert J. Connors, Lisa S. Ede, & Andrea A. Lunsford (Eds.), Essays on classical rhetoric and modern discourse, 152-169. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP. [rept. in Richard E. Young & Yameng Liu (Eds.), Landmark essays on rhetorical invention in writing, 203-219. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.]
  • Hauser, Gerard A. (1968). The example in Aristotle’s rhetoric: Bifurcation or contradiction? Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1(2): 78-90.
  • Homer. (1990). The Iliad, Bk. 9. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking.
  • Huseman, Richard C. (1965). Aristotle’s system of topics. Southern Speech Journal, 30: 243-252. [reprt. in Edward Schiappa (Ed.), Landmark essays in classical Greek rhetoric, 191-199. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.]
  • Leff, Michael. (1996). Commonplaces and argumentation in Cicero and Quintilian. Argumentation, 10: 445-452.
  • Lysias. (1994). On the refusal of a pension to the invalid. In James J. Murphy & Richard A. Katula, A synoptic history of classical rhetoric, 2nd ed., 225-228. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press.
  • McBurney, James H. (1936). The place of the enthymeme in rhetorical theory. Speech Monographs, 3: 49-74.  [rept. in Edward Schiappa (Ed.), Landmark essays in classical Greek rhetoric, 169-190. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.]
  • Ochs, Donovan J. (1982). Cicero’s Topica: A process view of invention. In Raymie E. McKerrow (Ed.), Explorations in rhetoric: Studies in honor of Douglas Ehninger, 107-118. Dallas, TX: Scott, Foresman and Co.
  • Peirce, Charles Sanders. (1955). The fixation of belief. In Justus Buchler (Ed.), Philosophical Writings of Peirce, 5-22. New York: Dover.
  • Popper, Karl R. (1968). Science: Conjectures and refutations. In Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge, 33-65. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Putnam, Hilary. (1985). A comparison of something with something else. New Literary History, 17(1): 61-79.
  • Rorty, Richard. (1991). Solidarity or objectivity? In Objectivity, relativism, and truth: Philosophical papers, Vol. I, 21-34. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  •  2. Texts for individual presentations

    Feminism and argumentation

  • Annas, Pamela J., & Deborah Tenney. (1996). Positioning oneself: A feminist approach to argument. In Barbara Emmel, Paula Resch, & Deborah Tenney (Eds.), Argument revisited; argument redefined: negotiating meaning in the composition classroom, 127-152. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Lamb, Catherine E. (1991). Beyond argument in feminist composition. College Composition and Communication, 42: 11-24.
  • Foss, Sonja K., & C. L. Griffin. (1995). Beyond persuasion: A proposal for an invitational rhetoric. Communication Monographs, 62(1): 2-18.
  • Postmodernism, narration, and Rogerian argument

  • Brent, Doug. (1996). Rogerian rhetoric: Ethical growth through alternative forms of argumentation. In Barbara Emmel, Paula Resch, & Deborah Tenney (Eds.), Argument revisited; argument redefined: negotiating meaning in the composition classroom, 73-96. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Fisher, W. R. (1984). Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument. Communication Monographs, 51(1): 1-22.
  • Faigley, Lester. (1992). Fragments of rationality: Postmodernity and the subject of composition. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P.
  • Responses to class texts

  • Fulkerson, Richard. (1996). The Toulmin model of argument and the teaching of composition. In Barbara Emmel, Paula Resch, & Deborah Tenney (Eds.), Argument revisited; argument redefined: negotiating meaning in the composition classroom, 45-72. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Burleson, B. R. (1979). On the foundations of rationality: Toulmin, Habermas, and the a priori of reason. Journal of the American Forensic Association, 16: 112-127.
  • Ray, John W. (1978). Perelman’s Universal Audience. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 64f: 361-375.
  • Keefer, Matthew. (forthcoming). Distinguishing practial and theoretical reasoning: A critique of Deanna Kuhn’s theory of informal argument. Informal Logic.
  • Pedagogical, developmental, and social issues

  • Corsaro, William A., & Thomas A. Rizzo. (1990). Disputes in the peer culture of American and Italian nursery-school children. In Allen D. Grimshaw (Ed.), Conflict talk: Sociolinguistic investigations of arguments in conversations, 21-66. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  • Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology of written composition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Kochman, T. (1981). Black and white styles in conflict. Chicago: U of Chicago P.
  • Piéraut-Le Bonniec, Gilberte, & Valette, M. (1991). The development of argumentative discourse. In G. Piéraut-Le Bonniec & Marlene Dolitsky (Eds.), Language bases . . . discourse bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research, 245-267. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Argumentation, rhetoric, and logic

  • Finocchiaro, M. A. (1994). Two empirical approaches to the study of reasoning. Informal Logic, 16 (1), 1-21.
  • Nisbett, Richard E., & Ross, L. (1980). Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Smith, Edward E., Christopher Langston, & Richard E. Nisbett. (1992). The case for rules in reasoning. Cognitive Science, 16: 1-40.
  • Kaufer, David S., & Christine M. Neuwirth. (1983). Integrating formal logic and the new rhetoric: A four-stage heuristic. College English, 45(4): 380-389.
  • Fulkerson, Richard. (1988). Technical logic, comp-logic, and the teaching of writing. College Composition and Communication, 39: 436-452.
  • Bybee, Michael D. (1993). Logic in rhetoric -- And vice versa. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 26(3): 169-190.
  • Fallacies and and other technical terms

  • Gaskins, R. H. (1992). Burdens of proof in modern discourse. New Haven: Yale UP.
  • Hamblin, C. L. (1970). Fallacies. London: Methuen.
  • Walton, D. N. (1992). The place of emotion in argument. University Park: Penn State UP.
  • Walton, D. N. (1991). Begging the question: Circular reasoning as a tactic of argumentation. New York: Greenwood P.
  • Walton, D. N. (1989). Informal logic: A handbook for critical argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  • Walton, D. N. (1988). Burden of proof. Argumentation, 2: 233-254.
  • Some key texts

  • Fisher, W. R. (1978). Toward a logic of good reasons. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, 64(4): 376-384.
  • Billig, M. (1987). Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology.  Cambridge: Cambridge U P. [New edition: 1996.]
  • O’Keefe, D. J. (1990). Persuasion: Theory and research. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.
  • Kaufer, Davis S., & Cheryl Geisler. (19xx). A scheme for representing written argument. Journal of Advanced Composition.
  • Farrell, T. B. (1977). Validity and rationality: The rhetorical constituents of argumentative form. Journal of the American Forensic Association, 13: 142-149.
  • Govier, Trudy. (1987). Problems in argument analysis and evaluation. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.
  • Wallace, K. R. (1963). The substance of rhetoric: Good reasons. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 49(3): 239-249.
  • Jacobs, Scott, and Jackson, Sally. (1982). Conversational argument: A discourse analytic approach. In J. R. Cox & C. A. Willard (Eds.), Advances in argumentation theory and research, 205-237. Carbondale: So. Illinois UP.
  • van Eemeren, F. H., Grootendorst, R., & Kruiger, T. (1984). The study of argumentation. New York: Irvington Publishers.
  • Willard, C. A. (1989). A theory of argumentation. Tuscaloosa: The U of Alabama P.
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