A website devoted to exploring accessibility at the intersection of technology and rhetoric. The cornerstone of the site is, at least for now, a study of accessible podcasting.
Zdenek, Sean. Accessible Rhetoric. Resources>Accessibility>Rhetoric>Blogs
Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Composition, and Rhetoric
The Bakhtin/Vygotsky listserv invites subscribers to post information relevant to Bakhtin/Vygotsky scholarship, including announcements of publications, conferences, seminars, calls for papers, etc.
Zappen, James P. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Resources>Mailing Lists>Rhetoric
Bibliography for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication 
This bibliography contains citations for over 7,600 articles and books dealing with issues related to rhetoric, composition, professional communication, and associated topics, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.
Thune, W. Scott. Iowa State University. Resources>Bibliographies>Rhetoric
Rhetoric is arguably one of the oldest disciplines in the world. Its earliest antecedent can be found in the sophist tradition of Classical Greece. Two of the earliest sophists, Tisias and Corax, made a comfortable living traveling around Hellenic Europe teaching people the finer points of oratory. The sophistic tradition was harshly criticized by major philosophers of the time (most notably, Socrates and Plato) as an unintellectual and immoral profession. In Plato's view, rhetoricians (i.e., sophists) were more concerned with appearances rather than substance--in Plato's play Gorgias, he has the character of Socrates accuse the rhetorician/sophist Gorgias of specializing in making the bad case seem best and the best case seem bad.
Petraglia-Bahri, Joseph. Georgia Institute of Technology (1996). Resources>Directories>Rhetoric
Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database
Welcome to the home page of the Composition & Rhetoric Bibliographic Database project. Citations from journals and books in composition and rhetoric studies have been archived in both EndNote and Refer/BibIX bibliographic formats.
Honeycutt, Lee. Iowa State University (2001). Resources>Bibliographies>Rhetoric
An ongoing online index of twentieth-century publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing.
Haswell, Rich. CompPile. Resources>Bibliographies>Rhetoric>Technical Writing
How You Can Make Plain English Work for You
Plain English is good, clear writing which communicates as simply and effectively as possible. But it is not a childish or simplistic form of English.
Government of Australia (2003). Resources>Writing>Rhetoric>Minimalism
Joddy's Visual Rhetoric Bibliography 
This is a working bibliography on visual rhetoric, visual studies, visual literacy, and anything concerning the image and writing.
Murray, Joddy. Morrismurray.net. Resources>Bibliographies>Rhetoric
Kairosnews is an open community of members interested in the intersections of rhetoric, technology and pedagogy. Visitors can create an account, submit a story, join in the many discussions by posting comments, or read the news gathered from other sites by our aggregator. Members can also subscribe to a daily email newsletter of updated site content.
A collection of links to websites in rhetoric and technical communication.
A collection of online resources affiliated with Bedford/St. Martin's writing and rhetoric textbooks.
A directory of links to resources in rhetoric and technical communication.
Nuopponen, Anita. Vaasan Yliopisto. (Finnish) Resources>Directories>Rhetoric
A resource portal for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric and composition.
Levy, Matthew A. Rhetcomp.com (2001). Resources>Writing>Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Communication Links
Provides a Canadian perspective on the field of technical and professional communication.
MacLennan, Jennifer. University of Saskatchewan (2002). Resources>Directories>TC>Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Technical/Professional Communication
A page of links to resources in rhetoric, technical and professional communication.
Smith, Tania S. University of Calgary (2003). Resources>Directories>TC>Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Science and Technology

A collection of resources in the rhetoric of science and technology.
American Communication Association (2001). Resources>Scientific Communication>Rhetoric
Rhetorical Theory Discussion Group
Open to teachers, students, practitioners, or the idly curious. Discussion of both pure theory and practical applications of theory are welcome. Topics include (but are not limited to): Technical communication, The Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle , Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Boethius, Christine de Pisan, Laura Cereta, Desiderius Erasmus, Peter Ramus, Francis Bacon, John Locke, George Campbell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mikhail Bakhtin, I. A. Richards, Ernst Cassirer, Kenneth Burke, Richard Weaver, Chaim Perelman, Stephen Toulmin, Michel Foucalt, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Kenneth A. Bruffee, Rachel Spilka, Thomas Kuhn, Carolyn Miller, Jakob Nielsen, Edward R. Tufte, Langdon Winner.
Both spatial and visual rhetorics attend to issues of boundaries. From the structure of our classroom spaces to the margins of the page, rhetoric and compositionist are investigating the ways spatial and visual experiences are impacting our work as teachers and scholars.
Kimme Hea, Amy C. University of Arizona (2005). Resources>Education>Cultural Theory>Visual Rhetoric
Users' Guide to the Promotional Literature
The group 'No Free Lunch' is composed of health professionals trying to avoid the excesses of pharmaceutical marketers. This is their guide to interpreting pharmaceutical promotional materials. Other sections of this website are also of interest.
Lack of Evidence Based Medicine Working Group, The. nofreelunch.org (1999). Resources>Publishing>Biomedical>Rhetoric
The study of visual communication is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional effort. People who write on this topic come from mass communication (including photography, advertising, and news editorial areas), film and cinema studies, education, art and aesthetics, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, architecture and even archaeology. This rich melange of viewpoints is an asset because of the insights that come from cross-fertilization, however it causes some problems academically for those of us who teach visual communication because of a lack of any sense of common theory. This is not to suggest that there is or should be a central of core theory that organizes the field, however, it would be easier to order a curriculum, as well as a graduate program of study, if there were some notion of at least the important theories and scholars from the various disciplines that need to be covered. This project looks at the body of literature and the categories that emerge from the writings to develop a taxonomy of topics and some sense of the location of the most important, or at least the most frequently written about, areas of study. The objective is to collect the scholarly writing on the most central visual communication topics (mental imagery, visual thinking, the language metaphor, psychology), as well as peripheral topics that interweave with visual communication, such as sociology, anthropology, archaeology and architecture.
Moriarty, Sandra and Keith Kenney. International Visual Literacy Association. Resources>Bibliographies>Information Design>Visual Rhetoric
A collection of online resources for visual rhetoric, based at York College of Pennsylvania.
Propen, Amy. York College of Pennsylvania. Resources>Directories>Visual Rhetoric
This page serves as a gateway for an exploration of visual rhetoric. It includes links to course materials, student projects, supplementary resources, exempla, and other web-based material.
Blakesley, David. Purdue University (2000). Resources>Directories>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric
The goal of this site is to explore the ways in which rhetoric, visual culture, and pedagogy interact with and inform each other. In keeping with this mission, the viz. blog is a forum for exploring the visual through identifying the connections between theory, rhetorical practice, popular culture, and the classroom.
University of Texas. Resources>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Blogs
iLT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them. We really cannot escape typography; it's everywhere: on road signs, shampoo bottles, toothpaste, and even on billboard posters, in books and magazines, online...the list is endless, and the possibilities equally so.
I Love Typography. Resources>Graphic Design>Typography>Visual Rhetoric
A collection of online resources about writing grant proposals, particularly those useful to nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit Support Center (2004). Resources>Grants>Proposals>Rhetoric
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