Five Fail-Safe Tips When You Forget or Get Flustered During a Presentation

If you haven’t yet experienced your point of embarrassment or memory lapse, you will. When it happens, consider these fail-safe ways to regain your memory and retain your poise.

Booher, Dianna. Presenters University (2003). Articles>Presentations>Methods>Rhetoric

The Process of Writing: A Philosophical Base in Hermeneutics  

There is no doubt that among those concerned with composition and the teaching of writing, one of the dominant concerns is the process of writing. Anyone who has attended the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in the past five years can attest to this fact. Indeed, writing across the curriculum and the process method of teaching composition are probably the two most important innovations in the field of composition in the past ten years. Whole programs have been restructured to enable teachers to teach by the process method. At my own institution, John Ruszkiewicz added this dimension to an already fairly elaborate composition program. Many of us who have been teaching composition for a good number of years have substantially altered our own techniques of teaching to incorporate more process emphasis.

Kinneavy, James L. JAC (1987). Articles>Rhetoric>Methods

Rhetorical Analysis of a Quick Reference Aid  

The need for timely and relevant computer documentation is a constant challenge. Sometimes there is a need to redesign such documentation to make it more useful. Rhetorical analysis is a useful aid for technical communicators in redesigning such documentation. Using Kenneth Burke’s notion of terministic screens, a quick reference aid for the users of a machine-aided translation system is examined from the perspective of graphic communication. Although rhetorical analysis cannot replace accepted principles of good design, it allows the technical communicator to examine design decisions from another perspective, giving one a very different set of questions to consider and some principles of explanation to justify design decisions.

Brooksbank, Patricia L. STC Proceedings (1993). Articles>Documentation>Methods>Rhetoric

Sue Smith's Rhetorical Analysis Tools

Rhetorical analysis looks at writing to see how it achieves its purpose. The point of rhetorical analysis is to see not only what writing says, but how it says it. To use a rhetorical analysis chart, choose a text to analyze and look at the questions/list of ideas.

Smith, Sue. University of Arizona. Articles>Rhetoric>Methods