Argumentation and Advocacy

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• Reimagining advocacy: rhetorical education in the legal clinic.
• Sit-in as argument and the perils of misuse.
• The rhetorical invention of diversity: Supreme Court opinions, public argument, and affirmative action.
• The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: On adversariality and roles in argument.
• How to belong: Women's agency in a transnational world.
• Speech and Debate as Civic Education.
• The playful divide: a new look at arguing for fun.
• The #Rhetoric of Waleed Aly's 'Send Forgiveness Viral': Is Rogerian argumentation an appropriate response to racism?
• Romanticism, rhetoric, and the search for the sublime.
• 'The glory of each generation is to set its own precedent': Belva Lockwood and the rhetorical construction of female presidential plausibility.

Featured documents

• Tropes in the rhetoric of gun rights: a pragma-dialectic analysis.
• The Supreme Court cleans the air: legal and scientific standards for argument in Massachusetts v. EPA.
• Dissociation and visual arguments: creating customers for Levy's real Jewish rye.
• Framing silence and absence regarding presidential debates: successful and unsuccessful performances of democratic leadership.
• "Forcing" and "consenting" social struggle: reflections on rhetoric and Jacobinism.
• Tweeting during presidential debates: effect on candidate evaluations and debate attitudes.
• "I thought we settled this?!" Antecedents and consequences of resolution of an initial episode in a serial argument.
• A call for polycultural arguments: critiquing the monoculture rhetoric of the local food movement.
• Ada Deer and the Menominee restoration: rethinking Native American protest rhetoric.
• Argument stakes: preliminary conceptualizations and empirical descriptions.