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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  • Positionality Stories

    On Positionality Stories, a blog hosted on Medium, teacher-scholars post first-person narratives examining how their identities, experiences, and perspectives shape the choices they make as scholars, teachers, and practitioners. With a focus on positionality in research, work, and teaching, these stories weave together the academic, the personal, and the public while also connecting academics with…

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  • Occasional Hazards

    A scholar’s blog on the history and theory of rhetoric for contemporary concerns.

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  • The Carolina Garden Trail at UNC Charlotte

    Take a walk through the crops of the Carolinas! On the Carolina Garden Trail in the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, visitors find six smaller gardens that tell the story of the Carolinas through plants crucial to its development. The Trail interprets the Carolinas’ diverse cultures, illustrating how crops and plants were used in different communities,…

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    • Course Design
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    • Pedagogy
    • Publicly Engaged Research
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  • ERSM for ARSTM, An AI search tool for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, & Medicine

    ERSM is a conversational AI agent designed to share scholarship in the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM). Built by importing Anthropic’s Large Language Model, Claude, ERSM holds a diverse bibliography of RSTM scholarship and set of key concepts (such as neurorhetoric, risk communication, etc.) and requires Claude to conduct a live web search…

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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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BECOME A MEMBER OF THE RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Joining RSA puts you into direct contact — via this website, RSA conferences and institutes, and other RSA members-only resources — with a large and growing interdisciplinary group of scholars who share your interest in rhetoric. Members receive access to Rhetoric Society Quarterly, special rates on events, and are eligible to be nominated for RSA awards.