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Ua3/8/8 President's Office-Meredith Speech File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Speeches written and delivered by Thomas Meredith.

Ua3/1/4 President's Office-Cherry Speeches & Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Addresses, chapel talks, notes and educational and political speeches written and delivered by Henry Hardin Cherry and others typed on loose leaf pages. There are also quotations, reports, wills, correspondence and a political cartoon. Many items have no attribution as to author or source. Other authors include A.C. Burton, A.W. Mell, Mattie McLean and J.S. Dickey. Some items are repeated throughout the series and others have been edited. Volume 5 has been digitized for use by researchers.

Accounts Of Violence From Arabs And Israelis On Abc-Tv’S Panel Discussion From Jerusalem, Richard Buttny, Donald G. Ellis

Communication and Rhetorical Studies - All Scholarship

The North American network, ABC-Television, broadcast the news-panel program, Nightline, from Jerusalem during the beginning days of the Second Intifada. One of the main themes of this discussion was the violence, pain, and trauma—the civilians killed or wounded, the military’s actions, and how it all started. Even the horrible facts of violence must be told or narrated and discussed for its morality, causes, consequences, responsibility, and political ramifications. In this sense, violence is discursive. How violence gets told, how versions get constructed or contested is our focus. Participants used the communicative practices of invoking membership categories and activity terms and …

"I Knew There Was Something Wrong With That Paper": Scientific Rhetorical Styles And Scientific Misunderstandings, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday's "favorite clause type," the author examines argumentative strategies in dense scientific prose both in bold and cautious rhetorical styles and invented lexical changes in new scientific development.

Bryson’S Dictionary Of Troublesome Words, Priscilla Finley

Library Faculty Publications

Travel writer and humorist Bryson has revised, adapted, and updated his style guide, first published in 1984 in Britain as Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words and in the US as Facts on File Dictionary of Troublesome Words, to appeal to contemporary American book buyers. Presenting itself as a "compilation of suggestions, observations, and treasured prejudices," the work compiles and comments on commonly misspelled words and proper nouns and other conundrums of usage scrupulous writers or copy editors may face.

An Orthodox Heresy: Scientific Rhetoric And The Science Of Prions., Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

A significant theoretical shift in the research community examining a class of terminal, infectious neurological disorders that includes Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Kuru was assisted by rhetorical production. The local rhetoric of one laboratory, that of Professor Stanley B. Prusiner, involved first situating an heretical hypothesis within the framework of the orthodox narrative and then audaciously promoting that heresy. Another aspect of rhetorical production in this case involved situating a new language associated with the heretical hypothesis. To promote their new lexicon, the Prusiner team evoked orthodox values of consistency, efficiency, and collective ratification. Eventually, what was once …

The Oxford Guide To Style, Priscilla Finley

Library Faculty Publications

Oxford's style manual will be essential to users previously dependent on Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers (39th ed., 1986)--those preparing manuscripts for Oxford University Press and other British publishers--which Ritter revises and enlarges. Chapters cover general publication topics such as front matter and preparation of copy and proofs; editorial issues like punctuation, numbers, and capitalization; special conventions regarding science and mathematics; and "specialist subjects" including British and EU law, music, poetry, drama, and sacred works.

Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …

Owning A Virus: The Rhetoric Of Scientific Discovery Accounts, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the first three medical reports on AIDS which were published in 1981 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the writers' primary rhetorical agenda was to argue that a new medical discovery had been made. A secondary agenda was to offer etiological explanations for the new problem. To establish the new disease entity as deserving serious attention, the writers built a sense of mystery by confronting established medical knowledge about immunodeficiency and emphasizing the inability of modern medicine to diagnose and treat the problem. When they explained the phenomenon in etiological terms, rather than confronting the disciplinary matrix, the …

Ua68/3/2 Forensics At Wku, Wku Forensic Union

Student Organizations

Report of the 1973-74 debate season of the WKU Forensic Union. Includes list of members and sponsors, events attended and hosted, awards and competition results.

Ua94/7/2 Baccalaureate Service Delivered At Wku, Phil Runner

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Draft of baccalaureate speech given by Rev. Phil Runner in 1956.

Ua94/6/1 Correspondence, J. R. Newman

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Letter to the College Heights Herald editor from J.R. Newman regarding the benefits of having been a member of the Congress Debating Club.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 61, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Archives Records

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio featuring a debate between WKU and Asbury College on minimum wage. Individuals included in the broadcast were Earl Moore, Louis Salomon, Charles Crain, B.H. Henard, Julius Brasher and Charles Runyan.

Ua99/6/1 Tenth Annual Debate Between Coreco & Big Four, Coreco Debating Society, Big Four Debating Society

Student Organizations

Transcript of the tenth annual debate between the Coreco & Big Four Debating Societies. Debaters were W.T. Green, C.B. Dunn, R.B. Morningstar, Clyde Miller, W.D. Gabbard and R.B. Dorris.

Ua99/6/1 Joint Debate Program, Coreco Debating Society, Big Four Debating Society

Student Organizations

Program for the sixth annual joint debate between the Big Four and Coreco debating societies. Gives question to be debated, names of debaters and lists of all members of both societies.

Ua3/1/4 Speeches & Ideas Book, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Notebook created by Henry Cherry entitled Talks Made at Morning Exercises. It contains handwritten speeches, clippings of sermons, poetry, cartoons and illustrations. Many pages were blank, those pages were not digitized. Page numbers match pdf file.

• A Dream Dreamed Over 37
• A Proposition from Epictetus 58
• A Railroad Man’s Prayer 2
• A Scientific Demonstration 54
• A Valuable Reminder, Ram’s Horn, nd 90
• A Vision, np, nd 37
• A Wasted Life 55
• An Important Question, Ram’s Horn, nd 86
• Bab’s Liberal Sermon – Worship in Church & In Green Fields Compared, np, 7/30/1896 7
• Baptist & Reflector, Vol. X, No. 9, …