The Rhetoric Companion

Typically counted as 1/4 credit for high school students.

The Rhetoric Companion
In clear, powerful, and amazingly funny prose, the Wilson family delights us again with The Rhetoric Companion, a guide to what rhetoric is and its impact on your life.

Become a Skillful Communicator
Written to help teens become skillful speakers, The Rhetoric Companion is a primer to understanding classical rhetoric and its practice in the modern day.

A Must-Read for Every Teen
The thirty-one lively and practical chapters are amazingly short, quite easy to understand, and they are sure to produce intelligent, intentional speakers and communicators. This is a must-read for every teen.

Also Available
At the end of each of the thirty-two lessons in The Rhetoric Companion text are assignments, recommended readings from classical sources, and review questions. A nifty Answer Key is available separately.


A Student's Guide to Power in Persuasion: Read an Excerpt from The Rhetoric Companion

Arranged in 31 lively and practical lessons
The Rhetoric Companion covers the following material and more:

A critical appreciation of the essential ancient rhetoric texts

The Pauline view of presentation and persuasion

How to develop copiousness and leave an audience wanting more

The concept of "stasis theory" and how to grasp the crux of an argument

How successful proof obligates an audience to believe

Composition exercises with each lesson

Suggested reading material for each lesson from Artistotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica Ad Herennium, or Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria


Publisher's Information
Author: N. D. Wilson and Douglas Wilson
Pages: 106, Paperback
Dimensions: 8.5x11
Copyright: 2011
Typical High School Credits Earned: 1/4 credit thinking skills
Faith-Based: Yes
Publisher: Canon Press