Resources

Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry

The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) is an interdisciplinary program at The University of Iowa. Its mission is to explore how scholarship and professional discourses are conducted through argument, how paradigms of knowledge are sensitive to social-political contexts, and how the presentation of scholarly and professional findings involves the recognition and negotiation of audiences.

POROI website


Guide to Citation Style Guides

Links to the best online style guides, including APA, Chicago, and MLA. They're especially helpful for citing online sources.

Guide to Citation Style Guides website


Rhetorical Studies, Theory, and Philosophy

An annotated group of resources including pages devoted to rhetorical studies, rhetorical and cultural studies, critical theory, visual rhetorics, philosophy, and theory.

Rhetorical Studies, Theory, and Philosophy website


Speeches and Speechmakers

A list of links to speech transcripts, streaming audio speeches, and sites that feature speech texts and information about particular speakers.

Zach Wahls' Iowa Speech for Gay Marriage

Speeches and Speechmakers website


The Forest of Rhetoric

Guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.