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Say It Well

Making Sense

First You Write a Sentence.

Writing to Be Understood

New Dad, Same Bad Jokes

The Elements of Style ( 4th Edition)

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster

Cold War Rhetoric

John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

Gerard Genette Literary Theory

At Home in the Anthropocene

Filosofía de la elocuencia

The Keys of Power

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

Political Vocabularies

From Surviving to Metaviving

The End of Genre

Composing Place

Faithful Deliberation

Racial Worldmaking

Becoming T. S. Eliot

The Child before the Court

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