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Argumentation and Advocacy articles from September 2002
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Argumentation and Advocacy archives from September 2002
Public and technical interdependence: regulatory controversy, out-law discourse, and the messy case of Olestra.
September 22, 2002... By some accounts, Procter & Gamble's fat substitute olestra (brand name Olean) (1) is a dangerous food additive that can "cause diarrhea and cramps and that can increase your risk of heart disease, cancer, and blindness" (Jacobson, 1998, p.2)....
The role of humor in political argument: how "strategery" and "lockboxes" changed a political campaign.
September 22, 2002... Shortly before the 2000 Presidential election, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press reported that 47% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 obtain most of their political information from late-night entertainment outlets (Kloer &...
"It helps to be a Don if you're going to be a Deirdre": revisting the rhetoric of economics. (Review Essay).(Deirdre McCloskey)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... As a nineteen year-old college sophomore, I made a harrowing decision: I would declare Econ (as the in-crowd called it) as my official minor. Why harrowing? Two reasons: first, I was a declared Speech Communication major, in part because I had...
Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era. By Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002; pp. x + 330. $35.00.
An unfortunate fact of academic life is that sometimes people who are...
Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Edited by James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 270. $50.00; paper $25.00.
While reading at a campus coffee shop...
Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene. By Robert Alan Brookey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002; pp. ix + 167. $27.95.
Evidence of the ongoing maturation of rhetorical studies comes in many...
Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader. Edited with an introduction by Carol Mattingly. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; pp. xii + 288. $35.00.
That Carol Mattingly recovers some of the temperance fiction...
Gifted Tongues: High school Debate and Adolescent Culture. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture. By Gary Alan Fine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001; PP. ix301. $65.00; paper $21.95.
In 1988, Michael McGough nostalgically lamented the "decline" of academic debate in...
Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion. By Jean Nienkamp. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; pp. xiv + 170. $35.00.
Jean Nienkamp introduces her project as an argument for including another...