Rhetorical Ethics
“Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric.” Ellen W. Gorsevski. [Peace & Change 24:4 (Oct.) 1999: 445-475]
“Nonviolent Communication: A Humanizing Ecclesial and Educational Practice.” Theresa F. Latini, [Journal of Education and Christian Belief 13:1, 2009: 19-31.]
“Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a ‘Code of Cross-Cultural Conduct”. (PDF) Krista Ratcliff [CCC 51.2 (Dec.) 1999: 195-224.]
“Ethical Dispositions: A Discourse for Rhetoric and Composition.” John Duffy. JAC, vol. 34, no. 1–2, 2014, pp. 209–37.
“The Good Writer: Virtue Ethics and the Teaching of Writing.” John Duffy College English 79:3 (Jan.) 2017: 229-250.
Rhetoric & Post-truth Era
“Politics and the English Language.” by George Orwell. Horizon 13:76 (April) 1946: 252-65.
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“To Teach or Not to Teach . . . Propaganda” [PDF] by John Ramage in Argument in Composition [Parlor Press/WAC Clearinghouse 2009] Pp. 122-139.
“On Bullshit” [PDF] by Harry Frankfurt. Rariton Quarterly Review 6:2 (Fall) 1986.
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition. Bruce McComiskey. Utah State UP: 2017. (Download sample chapter)
Exemplar Texts
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail“
Henry David Thoreau “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” [HTML] [PDF]