Discusses how the controversy surrounding Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan was crucial in convincing law teachers that engagement with popular controversies through punditry could and indeed should become part of their job description. (EV)

Examines the role of rhetorical strategies in repairing damaged corporate relationships. Demonstrates the utility of an integrated model (multiple-publics concept and strategies of apologia) to corporate public relations through a case study of Union Carbide's justification of the Bhopal gas leak. (KEH)

Reviews William Lutz's book "Doublespeak: From 'Revenue Enhancement' to 'Terminal Living'--How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You." (KEH)

Explores Walter H. Beale's "A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric," and places it in relation to other theories. Discusses Beale's semiotic theory of written discourse, its contribution, and relates Beale's aims to the rhetorical theories of James Kinnevey and James Britton. (SR)

Argues that the new social agendas for education warrant greater attention than generally received among educators. Examines the rhetoric of the George Bush administration. Suggests that this rhetoric asserts a purported ability to solve social ills through individual consumption. Asks if vision can become a goal for rhetoric. (SG)

Describes a freshman composition class in which students write essays about pollution. Explains that students classified and divided problems, cited examples, explored pollution's processes, used narrative, and offered comparisons. Describes how students prepared cause-and-effect oral presentations and then wrote persuasive letters. Concludes that…

Explores how argumentation in the eighteenth-century miracles controversy (a century-long debate in Britain over the reasonableness of revealed religion) exhibited a controlling concern for procedural considerations. Discusses how the Deists and the Orthodox apologists used their argumentative force to advance rival methods for evaluating miracle…

Refutes the dominant interpretation of the British Parliamentary debates on slave trade abolition, examining the argumentative strategies employed. Finds that slavers claimed that abolition would destroy the nation's prosperity, while abolitionists depicted the slave trade as irrational and economically inefficient, thus undermining its economic…

Examines vilification (a rhetorical strategy which discredits adversaries as ungenuine and malevolent advocates) in the rhetoric of pro-life and pro-choice movements in Minnesota between 1973 and 1980. (SR)

Examines the relationship of construct differentiation and conceptual level to four features of argument design: number of arguments produced, coordinated conception of the problem, coordinated defense of the proposal, and diversity of stock issue covered. Finds that construct differentiation was positively associated with all four measures of…

Discusses how studying the 1988 Presidential Debates reveals the importance of ethos in speaking and being elected to office. Asserts that the debates also offer an excellent opportunity to teach propaganda devices or fallacies. Provides two examples from the second Presidential Debate. (MM)

Discusses problems with the use of "technical logic," transmuted into "comp-logic," in composition classrooms and textbooks. Maintains that students can produce more effective argumentative discourse by borrowing from either modern informal logic or neglected classical stasis theory. (SR)

The language of argumentation, taught increasingly often at the advanced level of French second-language learning, is discussed. Rationale for its teaching, basic concepts within the emerging discipline, and its relationship to traditional language teaching are examined. (MSE)

Identifies and describes two argumentative strategies AIDS activists use to claim the authority and ability to speak issues surrounding AIDS research: "redefinition" and "translation." Notes that both strategies revitalize the public sphere as a site of decision making about controversial issues. (SR)

Argues that participation in high school forensic activities can change students' lives. Maintains that the activity teaches lessons about language and communication that go beyond what can be learned in the classroom. Explains the benefits of forensics to teachers and how interested teachers can prepare themselves to become involved. (TB)