From Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats to Ronald Reagan's reputation as the "great communicator" to Barack Obama's soaring oratory to Donald Trump's Twitter use, styles of presidential ...

Timed for a presidential election year, this sassy, smart book outlines and illustrates nearly every rhetorical trope and flourish related to the art of persuasion. Following precepts gleaned from the ...

For those of you who've taken logic, critical thinking, and public speaking courses:<P>What exactly are the laws of rhetoric? I've heard the second law of rhetoric put forth as something like, "He who ...

Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, believed truth matters more than public approval. His life and teachings highlight ...

In his treatise, Rhetoric, Aristotle (335–322 BCE) held that rhetoric is the use of all the available means of persuasion. Aristotle’s omniscience led to the development of rhetorical theory, an ...