Rhetoric and Composition

Created and maintained by Michael Eidenmuller, University of Texas at Tyler. Texts and videos of speeches, movie speeches, sound clips with rhetorical figures, definitions, relevant passages from Plato and Aristotle. Award-winning resource. Includes a page of definitions of rhetoric.

Web portal owned by the Chronicle of Higher Education linking to a diverse selection of news stories, essays, reviews and thought pieces.

BBC collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most widely-read writers.

A wiki-based compendium of syntheses based on commonly asked questions in the field; ongoing.

An arts and humanities e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge. There are sections on multimedia, rhetoric, and technical communication.

A searchable, subject-categorized directory of websites that have been evaluated by librarians. It is hosted by the Information School at Drexel University, with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University.

Links to more than 12,000 English works freely available online for personal, non-commercial use.

Comprehensive site covering English-language poets. Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets it contains biographies, bibliographies, texts of poems, audio, and video.

A comprehensive handbook of rhetorical terms that is "intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."

Maintained by George Mason University. Presents a large number of audio file speech samples. Valuable for comparing and analyzing the accents of non-English speakers.

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