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Rhetoric Resources

Scholar's Desktop Resources - check facts, Biblical references, statistical summaries, maps, philosophical encyclopedias, more.

Bartelby.Com - search full text of American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style, World Factbook and more.

Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies - "The point of an argument is to give reasons in support of some conclusion. An argument commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not support the conclusion."

The Forest of Rhetoric - A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.

Rhetoric and Composition - rhetoric & composition resources plus links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, and a few miscellaneous but useful things--how to suscribe to some highly-trafficked mailing lists and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms, for example.

Rhetorical Studies, Theory and Philosophy - An annotated group of resources including pages devoted to Rhetorical Studies Texts, Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory, Visual Rhetorics Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Theory

Speeches and Speechmakers - A list of links to speech transcripts, streaming audio speeches and sites that feature speech texts and information about particular speakers.

Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides - Links to the best online style guides, including APA, Chicago, MLA -- especially, but not limited to, help with citing online sources.