Studied the role of age in the attitude change process by exposing older and younger women to persuasive information presented at different speeds. No overall age differences in the amount of attitude change were observed. (Author)

Analyzes the ways several women have written persuasive discourse and identifies a female rhetorical mode involving indirection, open-endedness, additive attention to small details, restraint, and noncombativeness. (DD)

Shows how a teacher can use advertisements to help students discover how an argument works, how an audience is convinced, and how to use rhetorical processes. (TJ)

Serious questions which face us may often be better understood when a modicum of salty satire is applied. Or is the author serious?!! (Editor)

Explores some of the more beguiling issues in aesthetics and education and suggests how they might be, in their devious ways, thwarting the development of aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Confronts the social-psychological problem of the relation between values and persons in everyday life. A model meeting the requirements for describing a clear conception of the individual in a social setting, with seven components, is described and used to illustrate what "having values" might mean. Outlines three brief applications. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to summarize the impact that lawyers, legal language and legal thinking have had on the contemporary practice of industrial psychology; clarifies what for an increasing number of psychologists has become the very trying experience of a Title VII court procedding. (Author/RK)

Community involvement should be dynamically and persistently cultivated: it can enhance the learning of the student and is crucial to the continuing support of the public schools. Suggests seven planning phases that might be helpful toward developing effective community involvement. (Author/RK)

Defines rhetorical enterprise as the combination of content and delivery which fosters a symbiotic relationship between source and receiver, and suggests a critical methodology for assessing the goals, methods and precedents of rhetorical enterprise. Provides a case study of the Reverend Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II and his Science of Living…

Argues that, however important the philosophical work is which has been done on "needs" in relation to the curriculum, clarification of what is entailed by a needs-policy has not gone far enough, and that the present state of opinion concerning such a policy may be damaging to educational development. (Author/RK)

States that persuasion as a discourse mode in composition classrooms tends to emphasize conflict and polarize students' positions. Proposes a "negotiative" mode of writing, focusing on the reader to achieve a cooperative settlement to opposing argument positions. Uses strategies including dialogic styles and structures that address issues of…

Examines the influences of variables on responses to refused requests. Finds that requesters (undergraduate students) who are more sensitive to the expression of others and have greater ability to adapt self-presentation are more likely to engage in further persuasion and less likely to engage in facework when unwillingness obstacles are…

Explores the possible relationship among issue involvement, argument strength, and the third-person effect. Finds that undergraduate students tend to believe that "others" will be more affected than themselves by a persuasive message that contains weak argumentation but that "others" will be less affected than themselves by a…

Argues that any political action is prepared, controlled and influenced by language. Notes that the study of language has become more central to academic disciplines concerned with politics. Political scientists focus on the consequences of political decisions and actions for a society, whereas linguists concentrate on the linguistic structures…