Volume 5

Elaborate Rhetorics

David Blakesley Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay presents a working definition of rhetoric, then explores its key terms to help you understand rhetoric’s nature as both an applied art of performance and a heuristic art of invention and creation.1 The definition also situates rhetoric in the social processes of identification and division. The definition […]

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Strategies for Analyzing and Composing Data Stories

Angela M. Laflen   Volume 5 Chapter Description Data stories are multimodal texts that combine data with words and images to tell a story to or make an argument for a particular audience. They are increasingly common in everyday life as technology has resulted in an information explosion. Data often do not make sense unless

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Writing Spaces Volume 5

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 5, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.  Download the full version of the book (PDF): You can also select a link below or visit our Essay Clusters feature to learn how you can use Writing Spaces

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