This site offers collaborative research on rhetorical action in professional writing, news/media journalism, and the teaching of writing. Grounded in classical rhetoric, our page inspects issues of responsibility in modern discourse. We extend Aristotle's definition of rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" ( Rhetoric ) to 21st century definitions that acknowledge that how one formulates a claim can convey as much as the claim itself .

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