Resources for Study

Easy Reference

Many of these are located in Strozier, and/or the Rhetoric and Composition Library (Williams 223). 
 

Bedford Bibliography. Reynolds, Nedra, Patricia Bizzell, and Bruce Herzberg, Eds. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. New York: Garland, 1996.

Rhetoric: Concepts and Definitions. Covino, William A., and David A. Jolliffe, eds. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Rhetoric and Human Consciousness. Smith, Craig R. Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History, Fourth Edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2013.

Rhetoric of Western Thought. Golden, James L. Goodwin Berquist, and William E. Coleman, eds. The Rhetoric of Western Thought: From the Mediterranean World to the Global Setting. Eighth Edition. Kendall/Hunt, 2003.

Rhetorical Criticism. Foss, Sonja. Rhetorical Criticism: Explorations and Practice, Fourth Edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2009.


SAGE Handbook. Lunsford, Andrea, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009.

Sourcebook on Rhetoric. Jasinski, James. Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. 


Critical (Online) Glossaries
Critical Terms for Media Theory (U Chicago "Theories of Media" keywords)
Johns Hopkins Guide (Literary Theory and Criticism)
Glossary of Classical Rhetorical Terms (UKY Modern and Classical LCC)
Glossary of Terms for Rhetorical Argument (from Ramage, et al, eds. Argument in Composition, 2009 WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press)
Siegel's (boutique) "Introduction to Literary Theory" (one of the better ones I have seen)
Silva Rhetoricae (Gideon Burton at BYU)
Wikipedia Glossary of Rhetorical Terms (a great start, but your help is needed to complete it)

 
Online Repositories and Databases
American Rhetoric Speech Bank
Avalon project for law, history, diplomacy (Yale)
E-Pluribus Unum Project (18th-20th century American oratory and texts)
HathiTrust Digital Library
Internet Archives Text Archive
Internet Library of Early Journals, 18th-19th century
Making of America (Cornell U)
Making of America (U Michigan)
19th-century Schoolbooks Project (Nietz Collection at Pittsburgh)
Perseus Project Digital Library (Tufts U)
Project Gutenberg
Project Muse


Research Tools and Webs
Alex catalogue with concordance
Archive Grid
Bartleby
Composition History and Theory Timeline (OU)
CompPile, 1939-present
Humanities Text Initiative (U Michigan)