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English: Program - Rhetoric: Background Information

Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, etc.

Here is a select list of core sources for communication, information, and design:


 

Hornblower, Simon. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. HUNT REF-1 DE5 .O9

Horner, Winifred Bryan, ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric.
HUNT REF-1  PN183 .P7 1990

Lanham, Richard A. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. HUNT REF-1  PE1445 .A2 L3 

Mulholland, Joan. Handbook of Persuasive Tactics: A Practical Language Guide. HUNT REF-1  P301.5 .P47 M85

Moran, Michael G.  Research in Composition and Rhetoric: a bibliographic sourcebookHUNT BSMT Z2015 .R5 .R47

Sonnino, Lee A. A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric. HUNT STACKS-2 PN218 .S6

Speck, Bruce W.  Collaborative Writing: an annotated bibliography.  Greenwood Press, 1999.  HUNT REF-1 Z5818 .E5 .C64

Online Collections of General Works

The following are online collections (some full-text) of general works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and much more. They are good for finding additional information sources: