The author reports results of an experiment designed to determine the types" of encoding behavior in the selection of evidence speakers make for persuasive messages. (Author/MS)

Bacon's views of the faculties of understanding and reason are presented and explained in reference to Baconian rhetoric. Understanding, Rhetoric, Insinuative and Imaginative Reason are defined. (Author/MS)

Develops the "knowledge-as-status" perspective and its model to help describe what knowledge is and how knowledge changes over time. Concludes that knowledge in a particular field will progress or regress on the basis of reasons for and against the changes--reasons advanced and analyzed in a rhetorically epistemological way. (PD)

Looks at incrementalism as a means of revitalizing the role of inherency arguments in modern debate. (PD)

Describes how the Westernport Game, a commercially available simulation designed to teach augmentation and reasoning, was modified for use in a large enrollment communications course within a business studies program at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education in Sydney, Australia. Sixteen references are listed. (LLS)

Discusses activities to teach a Rogerian approach to argument to help novice writers suspend evaluation of the opponent's position and to build their own position on values and knowledge they can share with the opponent. Includes discussion of a passage exemplifying Rogerian strategy. (HTH)

Discusses the concomitant advantages case in academic debate. Examines the distinction between concomitant and comparative advantages and the implications of this distinction for concomitant advantages as a form of argument. (PD)

Explores argumentation theory from the perspective of social constructivism. Examines the relationships and functions of argument-as-structure and argument-as-process and pursues some of the epistemic implications. (PD)

Examines the concept of the universal audience as the basic factor of Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory and concludes that it is subject to the same criticism as Rousseau's general will and Kant's categorical imperative. (JMF)

Discusses the "stock issues" approach to argument, presents a contemporary stock issue system for the arrangement of a single composition, and constructs a model argument as a way of demonstrating how the system works. (FL)

An annotated bibliography of 20 documents from the ERIC database, representing a spectrum of persuaders--men and women who employ strategies to change minds and modify behaviors. (JMF)

Discusses the use of transcending claims in argument as an implicit attempt to move the focus of an interaction from the challenged claim and, thus, to circumvent argument on the original claim. (JMF)

An extension of inoculation theory, controverted belief, was investigated by manipulating previous attack as part of a group discussion situation in which actual defense of an issue was considered essential for having an inoculating effect. The experimental groups were equally immunized against verbal attacks. (Author)

Notes that recent composition textbooks have classified Carl Rogers' work as a new rhetoric or as an alternative to classical argument. Demonstrates that to portray Rogers' method as a form of argument is to misunderstand his intent and that, while Rogers and Aristotle are similar superficially, their differences are profound. (FL)