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Rhetoric, philosophy, and literature : an exploration

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This article is published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Philosophy education & Western philosophy.

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Onward Into More Fog: Thoughts on Public Relations' Research Directions

TL;DR: A rhetorical perspective is vital (or for some, a European sociological perspective) because we must have a theory-based systematic way to understand, research, and critique the role of public relations in forming and responding to ideas as mentioned in this paper.
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Orality and Literacy in the Workplace: Process- and Text-Based Strategies for Multiple-Audience Adaptation.

TL;DR: A qualitative study of how seven engineers in two divi sions of a large corporation wrote for multiple audiences revealed that, in the more rhetorically successful cases observed, interaction was the central means of analyzing and adapting discourse to multiple audiences, fulfilling rhetorical and social goals, and building and sustaining a corporate culture as discussed by the authors.
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Rhetoric and Technical Communication: An Argument for Historical and Political Pluralism:

TL;DR: Rhetoric has traditionally been associated with philosophy and politics, with social and institutional good as discussed by the authors, but became disassociat ed from politics for historical reasons reflected in the works of Herbert Spencer and John Dewey.
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Going Public: Collaborative Systems Design for Multidisciplinary Conversations

TL;DR: The theoretical basis for going public is outlined, the underlying architecture of a public collaborative system is described, and two embodiments, the Design Conference Room and the Collaborative Classroom, are introduced.
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Public Rhetoric and Public Safety at the Chicago Transit Authority: Three Approaches to Accident Analysis

TL;DR: The authors compared three rhetorical approaches to accident analysis: materialist, classical, and constructivist approaches, focusing on rational deliberation between equals and the social construction of technical knowledge between professionals.