Online resources

Definitions

• James Comas, "The Question of Defining 'Rhetoric'"
• James Comas, "'Rhetoric' -- An Etymology"
• Victor Vitanza, "What is Rhetoric?"

Rhetoric culture

• Strecker, Meyer, and Tyler, "Rhetoric Culture: Outline of a project for the study of the interaction of rhetoric and culture"

Reference material

• Burton, "Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric" (sometimes unavailable, but consider it a basic text)
  
• Petraglia-Bahri, "A Brief Overview of Rhetoric" (a linking narrative for several student essays)
  
• Chandler, "Semiotics for Beginners: Rhetorical Tropes"
  
• Scaife and Ament(?), "A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples"
  

Readings in classical rhetoric

• Gorgias, "Encomium of Helen"
  
• Isocrates, Speeches and Letters (annotated)
  
• Isocrates, "Against the Sophists" (annotated)
  
• Isocrates, "Antidosis" (annotated)
  
• Plato, Gorgias (annotated)
  
• Plato, Gorgias (ASCII)
  
• Plato, Phaedrus (ASCII)
  
• Plato, Sophist (annotated)
  
• Plato, Sophist (ASCII)
  
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (annotated)
  
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (PDF)
  
• Aristotle, Poetics (annotated)
  
• Aristotle, Rhetoric (annotated)
  
• Aristotle, Rhetoric (annotated; Greek)
  
• Aristotle, Rhetoric (ASCII)
  
• Aristotle, Rhetoric
  
• Aristotle, Rhetoric (includes chapter summaries)
  
• Cicero, excerpts on the genres of rhetoric
  
• Cicero, De Inventione
  
• Plutarch, Lives of the Ten Orators
  
• Longinus, On the Sublime
  
• Augustine, On Christian Doctrine

Readings in modern/postmodern rhetoric

• Peirce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
  
• Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (chapter 1)
  
• Wittgenstein, Lectures on Philosophy (excerpt on language-games, etc.; alternate link)
  
• Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (chapters 1-3; alternate link)
  
• Feyerabend, Against Method (analytical index, plus conclusion; alternate link)
  
• Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (chapters 1-4; alternate link)
  
• Rorty, Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism (alternate link)
  
• Derrida, interview on rhetoric and composition

More recent statements on rhetoric

• Brent, Reading as Rhetorical Invention
  
• Sperber, "Rhetoric and Relevance"
  
• Simons, Selected writings
  
• Burton, "The Rhetoric of a Rhetoric Website" (namely, Silva Rhetoricae)
  
• Dyck, "On the Return of the Repressed: Rhetoric Today"

Readings in the rhetoric of anthropology

• Marcus, "Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological Research"
  
• Marcus and Cushman, "Ethnographies as Texts"
  
• Tyler, "Vile Bodies--A Mental Machination"

Readings in the rhetoric of science

• Hamilton, "Rhetoric, Science, and the Rhetoric of Science"
• Lindeman, "The Rhetoric of Science in Public Policy"
• Reeves, "Owning a Virus: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discovery Accounts"

Readings in the rhetoric of advertising

• McQuarrie and Mick, "Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language"
  
• Compare with Ad Critic and Spin of the Day. Don't forget this either.

Online journals, etc.

• H-RHETOR Discussion List Archives
  
• JAC (more recent issues)
  
• Philosophy and Rhetoric
  
• Postmodern Culture
  
• Pre/Text: Electra(Lite)
  
• Rhetorica
  
• Rhetoric Review