Rhetoric for teachers

Numerous books address the question of what composition teachers need to know about rhetoric, including the following: Erika Lindemann and David Anderson, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 4th ed. (2001); W. Ross Winterowd and Jack Blum, A Teacher's Introduction to Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition (1994); Richard Fulkerson, Teaching the Argument in Writing (1996); and James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures (1996, reissued with new afterword and response essays, 2003), published posthumously.

An especially thorough survey of contemporary developments in argumentation, rhetoric, logic, and language approaches to argumentation is found in Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments (1996). The final chapter includes a helpful summary of European and non-European work in rhetoric and related areas of research. Persuasion, preaching, intellectual history, and native narrative are addressed in Don Paul Abbott, Rhetoric in the New World: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in Colonial Spanish America (1996).

Journals of rhetoric

A few of the many scholarly journals reflecting the most recent developments in rhetorical theory and interdisciplinary work include Rhetoric Review (quarterly); Philosophy & Rhetoric; Rhetorica (quarterly), with articles in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish; Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Argumentation and Advocacy (quarterly); Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (bimonthly); and College Composition and Communication (quarterly).