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Persuasion (Rhetoric)

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• Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Process of Persuasion (New York: Crown Publishers, c1946), by Clyde R. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaccine Rhetorics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2020), by Heidi Yoston Lawrence (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Katherine Saunders Nash (PDF at Ohio State)
• Remembering the AIDS Quilt (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2011), ed. by Charles E. Morris (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Argument in Composition (c2009), by John D. Ramage, Micheal Callaway, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, and Zach Waggoner (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Ellen Rooney
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text

• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law: With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Women's Organizations (fourth edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894), by Harriette R. Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007), by Williamjames Hoffer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The IDEA Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates (New York et al: International Debate Education Association, 2012), contrib. by Bruce Lee Zellers (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• Stephen A. Douglas: Annual Address Delivered Before the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois, January 31, 1908 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers, 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William S. Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, by United States House of Representatives, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (partial serial archives)

• Filibuster Abuse (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2010), by Mimi Marziani, contrib. by Susan M. Liss (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)

• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, by Alberta Legislative Assembly (PDF at assembly.ab.ca)

• Manual of Parliamentary Procedures in the Government of India (current edition, published in or after 2018), by India Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (PDF in India)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• Presbyterian and Reformed News (with related materials) (partial serial archives)

• Transformed by Truth: The Worldwide Church of God Rejects the Teachings of Founder Herbert W. Armstrong and Embraces Historic Christianity; This is the Inside Story (originally published 1997), by Joseph Tkach, contrib. by Hank Hanegraaff (illustrated HTML with commentary at gci.org)

• Étude sur les Plaidoyers d'Isée (thesis in French; Paris: E. Thorin, 1876), by Léon Moy
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Extempore Speaking: Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar (with additions by "a member of the New York bar"; 6th edition; New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by L. Bautain (multiple formats at Google)
• Mr. Punch's Young Reciter: (Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces); With Introductions, Remarks, and Stage-Directions (enlarged and illustrated edition; London: Bradbury, Agnew, ca. 1897), by F. Anstey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice, by Irvah Lester Winter (Gutenberg text)
• American Orators and Oratory: Being a Report of Lectures Delivered by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at Western Reserve University, Under the Auspices of the Western Reserve Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Cleveland: Imperial Press, 1901), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, contrib. by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse (New York: Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, c1902), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study (1910), ed. by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

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