Approved Textbooks for Lower Division RHE Courses

Rhetorics approved for specific courses

RHE 309S and RHE309K; RHE 306 (for returning 306 instructors)

- A Rhetoric of Argument, Fahnestock and Secor
- Writing Arguments, John Ramage, John Bean, and June Johnson
- Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy, Donald Lazere
- Critical Situations, Sharon Crowley and Michael Stancliff
- Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, Browne and Keeley
- Having Your Say: Reading and Writing Public Arguments, Charney and Neuwirth
- Elements of Reasoning, Corbett and Eberly
- Elements of Persuasion, Covino
- Good Reasons, Faigley and Selzer
- They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Graff and Birkenstein
- Everything’s an Argument, Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz
- Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students by Sharon Crowley and Debra Hawhee
- Rhetorical Analysis: A Brief Guide for Writers by Jeffrey Walker and Mark Longaker

Handbooks (the following handbooks also provide tools and terms for rhetorical analysis)

RHE 310

- Martha Kolln's Rhetorical Grammar
- Susan Blau and Kathryn Burak's Writing in the Works
- Joseph Williams's Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace
- Richard Lanham's Revising Prose
- John Trimble's Writing with Style

RHE 312

Writing for the World Wide Web, Victor Vitanza
The Longman Guide to the Web, Lester Faigley
Internet Invention, Gregory Ulmer
The CyberReader, Victor Vitanza
On Digital Rhetoric, David Gillette
Critical Literacy in A Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest, Barbara Warnick
The New Media Reader, Eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort

RHE 315

- Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age,
John Ruskiewicz, Daniel Anderson, and Christy Friend
- Picturing Texts, Lester Faigley, Diane George, Anna Palcik and Cynthia Selfe
- Seeing and Writing, Donald and Christine McQuade

Handbooks approved for any lower division course

- Brief Penguin Handbook, Faigley
- SF Express, Ruszkiewicz, Friend, and Hairston
- Easy Writer, Andrea Lusford
- The Little Seagull Handbook by Richard Bullock and Francine Weinberg