Category: Volume 4

Vol. 4.2: Negotiated Locations of Rhetoric By Editorial, Issue 2, Volume 4 "The editors of Present Tense are pleased to announce a new issue focused on a range of topics, from race and law to the politics of higher education. Volume 4.2 includes articles that explore rhetoric as it exists in many different places, especially as it is employed by disempowered and disenfranchised groups in politically contested Read More

Enthymeme as Rhetorical Algorithm By Kevin Brock Issue 1, Volume 4 "The enthymeme, while serving as the central basis for heuristic invention, also works at the local or sentence level as a rhetorically oriented algorithmic procedure through which a rhetor determines the most probable success in persuading an audience to action" Read More

Book Review: Rickert’s Ambient Rhetoric By Nicholas Crawford, Michelle Ballif Issue 1, Volume 4 "Ambient Rhetoric succeeds because it usefully synthesizes and extends a broad range of anti-epistemological stirrings from within and outside of rhetoric studies and because it attempts to come to grips with some of the implications of an anti-epistemological shift." Read More