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This e-book outlines sensible techniques for lecturers, together with how one can stimulate scholars to write down via photos, readings, and discussions, and powerful, motivating how one can reply to scholar writing.

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The Age of Apology. Facing up to the Past (pp. 31–44). Philadelphia, PA: University of Penn State Press. Villadsen, L. (2008). Speaking on behalf of others: Rhetorical agency and epideictic functions in official apologies. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 38, 25–45. Ware, B. L. & Linkugel, W. (1973). They spoke in defense of themselves. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 59, 273–283. Chapter 2. More than a nice ritual Primary sources Ahern, B. (1999). May 11. Announcement on Government Measures Relating to Childhood Abuse.

Orators on either side of a debate use persuasive speech to influence their audience’s decision. … Unlike Habermas, he rejects the claim that truly universalizable norms can be apprehended intersubjectively through rational discourse.  (p. ) Going a step further, the political theorist Bernard Yack argues that the obligation of public deliberative rhetors to integrate appeals to advantage and self-interest with communal considerations is ennobling rather than demeaning. For one thing, “it rules out explicitly self serving arguments” (2006, p.

Crafting virtue: The rhetorical construction of public morality. In J. Lucaites, C. Condit, & S. ), Contemporary Rhetorical Theory.  306–325). New York, NY: Guildford Press. De Grieff, P. (2008). The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: On making trustworthy institutions trusted. In M. Gibney, R. -M. Coicaud, & N. ), The Age of Apology. Facing Up to the Past (pp. 120–136). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Griswold, C. (2007). Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration.

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