[Commlist] New Book: Rhetoric in Everyday Life

/Rhetoric in Everyday Life/, Wake Forest University students, Library 
Partners Press, 2021.

This student-authored book project 
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1618461249/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1>emerges 
from two rhetorical theory undergraduate classes. Students write about 
key rhetorical terms (such as pathos, kairos, style) and related 
vocabulary (work, action, gender, gratitude) with the goal of teaching 
non-academic audiences how to understand and engage rhetorical theory in 
everyday life.


FROM THE BACK COVER: Rhetoric is not a rainstorm, it is a groundswell. 
It doesn’t rain down on us from the sky, from those who have authority. 
Instead, it rises up from the ground, rhetoric is made by the people and 
groups who employ it. As a student of social movements, I have always 
felt that it is more our job as scholars to understand the rhetoric as 
it rises than to push to fit it within our existing conventions and 
theoretical frameworks.

Working collaboratively with students, with an emerging generation of 
scholars, as they re-defined, re-examined, and re-invented rhetoric this 
semester has solidified my belief in the iterative percolation of the 
rhetorical tableau. These co-authors urged me to look at conventions 
with new lenses, to think about the impact of speech in more expansive 
ways, and to fully divorce myself from any illusion of rhetorical 
stagnancy. Their passion and creativity enlivened my own rhetorical 
analysis and I found myself incorporating their interpretations of terms 
into my own daily rhetorical interpretations.

*Shelley Sizemore*, Director of Community Partnerships in the Office of 
Civic & Community Engagement, Wake Forest University.


Paperback ($10): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1618461249/ 
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1618461249/>

Kindle ebook ($1): 
https://www.amazon.com/Rhetoric-Everyday-Life-Forest-University-ebook/dp/B099FGN8SQ/ 
<https://www.amazon.com/Rhetoric-Everyday-Life-Forest-University-ebook/dp/B099FGN8SQ/>

Downloadable/online ($0, free): 
https://librarypartnerspress.pressbooks.pub/rhetoricineverydaylife/ 
<https://librarypartnerspress.pressbooks.pub/rhetoricineverydaylife/>

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