Under the Gun America's gun violence epidemic is put under the microscope by Stephanie Soechtig, who tries to unpack the partisan, highly charged rhetoric and argument on both sides of the debate.
Even with its idiosyncrasies and current stresses, American policy debate has offered the world valuable tools in argumentation theory and various frames and formats for thinking about rhetoric and argument.
From this time onwards, both sides of the controversy developed a common rhetoric, arguing that 'sound science' or 'the evidence' supported their arguments, while selectively drawing on different scientists (the ISG or King) to do so (Macrae 2007; Derbyshire 2008).
His administrative abilities fell well short of his mastery of rhetoric and argument.
BEYOND the planet-saving rhetoric, the argument at Copenhagen and beyond will be about emissions levels and money.
The Jesuits aimed to be an army of very smart casuists and propagandists, skilful in rhetoric and argument, trained to counter the reformers' charges, not interested in truth but in Catholicism's tendentious version of it.
All forms of design encompass some aspect of rhetoric or argument.
On top of all the usual pro-bud, "It's only a plant, man" rhetoric, one argument was that legalisation would create a tax-profitable "green economy".
Yes, he has to make compromises on policy grounds — but that doesn't mean he has to adopt the right's rhetoric and arguments.
There is a now complete lack of genuine tactical insight (once his forte); instead we have rash rhetoric, silly arguments with his fellow sofa-sitters and a surprising degree of ignorance.
Those in search of argument, rhetoric or poetry will have to look elsewhere.
