RHETORICS FOR ALL

Rhetorics for All is an ever-growing catalog of publicly engaged rhetorical scholarship. It aims to collect such scholarship in a central location, give it greater visibility through RSA networks, facilitate connections between those pursuing such scholarship within and beyond the society, and, ultimately, increase the public relevance of rhetorical studies.

RSA believes that a public catalogue of the engaged work of our membership will provide models for public work, enhance collaboration across the society, and broaden the narrative regarding the role of rhetorical study in higher education and contemporary culture.

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  • Beautiful Social Research Collaborative

    For sixteen years, the Beautiful Social Research Collaborative has brought students and community partners together to create more than 160 public-facing media projects informed by community knowledge and their visions for change. Founded by Aimée Knight in 2010, Beautiful Social is a community-engaged writing program grounded in COM 441 Media and Community Engagement and COM…

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  • RhetAI Coalition

    The RhetAI Coalition connects AI/ML industries with university researchers and not-for-profit partners to provide solutions to AI’s unprecedented—and currently unchecked—powers of persuasion. Drawing from research in the field of rhetoric and its focus on ethical persuasion, RhetAI Coalition members investigate, develop, and propose new frameworks for tomorrow’s persuasion machines in order to support democratic principles…

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  • In the Age of “Fake News,” What’s Real?

    I delivered this TEDx Talk, titled “In the Age of ‘Fake News,’ What’s Real?” in March 2018 to draw attention to the rhetorical and communication techniques confronting today’s information consumers. The talk highlights how today’s interconnected and information-dense world poses challenges to consumers aiming to sift through the infinite scroll cycle to distill the facts.…

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  • Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, Power

    Reading Rhetorical Theory is a multi-authored online textbook project that provides an accessible, multimodal, and entry-level survey of rhetorical theory centered on (1) practical techniques and political problems associated with speaking, (2) social, cultural, and linguistic modes of representation, and (3) interwoven hierarchies of rhetoric and power. The project covers rhetoric’s problematic “origins” in ancient…

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  • Speak to Engage (speaktoengage.org)

    Speak to Engage (speaktoengage.org) offers free, open access resources for instructors across disciplines for integrating speaking skill-building into higher education courses. Using a rhetoric across the curriculum/speaking in the disciplines model, Speak to Engage takes an ecumenical approach to speaking skills, supporting instructors across campus in teaching debate, discussion, deliberation, presentational speaking, listening, and much…

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  • How federal officials talk about health is shifting in troubling ways – and that change makes me worried for my autistic child

    This article explains why people with disabilities and their advocates are alarmed by the echoes of eugenics in MAHA rhetoric. I discuss Uhlrich Beck’s idea of the individualization of risk and predict that Trump and RFK Jr.’s ways of speaking about autism are opening the door to drastic cuts in federal funding for necessary services…

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