Hillsdale College announced the release of its newest online course, “Classical Logic and Rhetoric,” to teach Hillsdale’s worldwide online audience how to reason and speak. Hillsdale Online has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Rhetoric' has a bad rap – but some of the original rhetoricians' techniques can actually help foster productive conversations.

There are vital relationships between public rhetoric and public policy in a democratic society, and I fear that current public rhetoric about public education does not serve us well. Each report ...

We are living in a contentious time in history. Fundamental disagreements on critical policy, economic, and political issues make it essential to learn how to compose an effectiveargument and to ...

When I think about the tactics of the Democrat and Republican parties, I am reminded of lyrics from the Buffalo Springfield song 50 years ago: "There's something happening here What it is ain't ...

At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of how ...

Words matter. Our capacity to speak and name things, known as “generative language,” is a uniquely human gift among living creatures. But in modern times we’ve managed to misuse this gift, ...

Rhetoric and writing studies students find employment in a variety of fields, including web authoring, copywriting, speech writing, technical writing, grant writing, science writing, journalism, ...

Editor’s note: There is currently a lot of controversy about and hateful rhetoric directed at immigrants and refugees. Today is International Migrants Day, so Teaching Tolerance staff writer Coshandra ...