Argumentation and Advocacy articles from January 2006

Argumentation and Advocacy archives from January 2006

Chisholm v. Georgia and the question of the judiciary in the early republic.
January 1, 2006... Legal argumentation, as a number of scholars have concluded, arises from and returns to legal and political culture. Judges do not speak from and address themselves to some ahistorical entity known as "the Law"; rather, they are immersed in and...

Making room for stem cells: dissociation and establishing new research objects.
January 1, 2006... Embryonic stem (ES) cells represent the latest front in political battles over the "culture of life." President Bush and his supporters among religious conservative groups claim that ES cell research constitutes murder of developing life, while...

Implications of students' cognitive styles for the development of argumentation skills.(THE FORUM: COGNITIVE STYLES AND ARGUMENTATION PEDAGOGY)
January 1, 2006... Increasingly, educators are becoming aware of the need to adapt their pedagogical strategies to students' learning preferences in order to foster an equitable learning environment. Decades of research vividly demonstrate that students learn in...

Moving the debate about argumentation pedagogy to the next level: response to Hunt, Meyer, and Lippert.
January 1, 2006... The debate regarding how to best educate students is far from new. In fact, arguments about what constitutes effective pedagogy can be traced back more than 2000 years, to ancient Greece and the works of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. Yet,...

From dialectical theory to reflective practice: response to Hunt, Meyer, and Lippert.
January 1, 2006... Even contradiction-oriented argumentation scholars probably would agree that the teaching of argumentation (debate, critical thinking) has important effects on the eventual success of our students (see, for example, Bruffee, 1992; Jackson,...

Missing the opportunity to advance argumentation instruction? Reply to Sellnow and Polcar.
January 1, 2006... Although argumentation can take many different forms and will vary with the unique stylistic and propositional preferences of the individual speaker, pedagogical materials and practices have tended to privilege certain types of evidence and...

In the Name of Terrorism: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... In the Name of Terrorism: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era. By Carol K. Winkler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006; pp. x + 260. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Carol Winkler's latest book explores...

Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. By Lindal Buchanan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005; pp. xiv + 202. $30.00 paper. The antebellum period posed rhetorical challenges to women whose...

Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet. Edited by Peter M. Shane. New York: Routledge, 2004; pp. xx + 279. $125.00 cloth; $34.95 paper. Far from amplifying the "cacophony of criticism and cynicism"...

Defining Visual Rhetorics.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Defining Visual Rhetorics. Edited by Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004, pp. xi + 342. $36.00 paper. The task of determining what makes a visual image rhetorical or persuasive is not a simple chore...