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Goggin, Maureen Daly, Ed. – 2000
Heeding the call of noted rhetoric scholar Richard E. Young to engage in serious, scholarly investigations of the assumptions that underlie established practices and habits about writing, the contributors to this critical volume study a diverse array of disciplinary issues, situate their work in a wide matrix of theoretical perspectives, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Across the Curriculum
Gates, Rosemary L. – 1986
Three areas of the classical rhetoric of Aristotle, adapted for the modern discourse of inquiry and demonstration, provide a systematic framework for students to understand thought, investigation, and writing in other disciplines: aitia, kairos, and the enthymeme and the example. Aitia, or cause, has four aspects--the material cause, the formal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Critical Thinking