Elements of rhetoric
By: Richard Whately ; preface by Karyn Charles Rybecki ; introduction by Douglas Ehninger
Contributors: Ehninger, Douglas
Edition: 7th ed. rev.
Series: Key titles in rhetoric, argumentation, and debate; Key titles in rhetoric, argumentation, and debate series
Publisher: International Debate Education Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781932716504
Subjects: English language; Rhetoric
Notes: Includes index.

IDEBATE Press reissue, originally published: London : John W. Parker, 1846.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Of the address to the understanding, with a view to produce conviction (including instruction); title: Of propositions to be maintained; title: Of arguments; title: Of the various use and order of the several kinds of propositions and of arguments in different cases; title: Of introductions; title: Part II. Of the address to the will, or persuasion; title: Introductory considerations; title: Of the conduct of any address to the feelings generally; title: Of the favourable or unfavourable disposition of the hearers or readers towards the speaker or writer, and his opponent; title: Part III. Of style; title: Of perspicuity of style; title: Of energy, or vivacity of style; title: Of elegance, or beauty of style; title: Part IV. Of elocution, or delivery; title: General considerations relative to elocution; title: The artificial and natural modes of elocution compared; title: Considerations arising from the differences between reading and speaking; title: Practical deductions from the foregoing views.