Ep 2: Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech, by Patricia Roberts-Miller

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech" by Patricia Roberts-Miller (https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/), a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was written by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe).

Chapter keywords: conceptual metaphor, deliberative rhetoric, public argumentation, rhetorical topoi

Patricia Roberts-Miller is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also directs the writing center. Her scholarly and teaching interests include the history and theory of public argumentation—as she likes to put it, she’s a “scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation.” More about Trish can be found at patriciarobertsmiller.com. (2017 bio)

The theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

The full book is edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe and was published for free by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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