Argumentation and Advocacy

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• The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: On adversariality and roles in argument.
• Here is a strange and bitter crop: Emmett Till and the rhetorical complications of treescape memory.
• 'The glory of each generation is to set its own precedent': Belva Lockwood and the rhetorical construction of female presidential plausibility.
• Analyzing and judging the manifest rationality of Gloria Steinem's 'Supremacy Crimes'.
• Speech and Debate as Civic Education.
• The rhetorical invention of diversity: Supreme Court opinions, public argument, and affirmative action.
• Reimagining advocacy: rhetorical education in the legal clinic.
• (Mis)quoting King: commemorative stewardship and ethos in the controversy over the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
• The playful divide: a new look at arguing for fun.
• Sit-in as argument and the perils of misuse.

Featured documents

• Tropes in the rhetoric of gun rights: a pragma-dialectic analysis.
• Deactivating the state of exception: imagining a popular trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
• Do presidential debates matter? Examining a decade of campaign debate effects.
• Strategic maneuvering in dispute mediation.
• Definitional argument: Nevada's commercial UAV debate and the case of threatened prosperity.
• The social consequences of dissociation: lessons from the same-sex marriage debate.
• Framing silence and absence regarding presidential debates: successful and unsuccessful performances of democratic leadership.
• 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.
• The argumentative force of image networks: Greenpeace's panmediated global detox campaign.