Braiding and Rhetorical Power Players: Transforming Academic Writing through Rhetorical Dialectic

Computational Dialectic and Rhetorical Invention

This paper has three dimensions, historical, theoretical and social. The historical dimension is to show how the Ciceronian system of dialectical argumentation served as a precursor to recent computational models like the Carneades argumentation model. The theoretical dimension is to show concretely how these models reveal the interdependency of rhetoric and logic, and so the interdependency of...

The Rhetorical Nature of Academic Research Funding

To better understand the complex relationship between academic researchers and funding agencies, the author interviewed 15 academic researchers regarding their views, suggestions, and difficulties in coordinating the proposal process. Data suggest that academic research funding is highly rhetorical, and that successful researchers have well-developed managerial, organizational, and communicatio...

Head and Hand : Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing

Give Me Technology: Rhetorical Strategies in Scientific Writing

In order for scientific breakthroughs to directly impact the general public, abstract ideas, theories and discoveries must be effectively transformed into real technologies which, when applied, benefit everyday life. Similarly, scientific literature uses the conventions of rhetoric to translate sheer unintelligible data into a wide understanding of its meanings and implications. The public " s ...

Improving Summarization Through Rhetorical Parsing Tuning

We study the relationship between the structure of" discourse and a set of summarization heuristics that are employed by current systems. A tight coupling of the two enables us to learn genre-specific combinations of heuristics that can be used for disambiguation during discourse parsing. The same coupling enables us to construct discourse structures that yield summaries that contain textual un...