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Sophistic Challenges: Gorgias' Epideictic Rhetoric and Postmodern Performance Art. In Rhetoric in the Vortex of Cultural Studies, edited by Arthur Walzer. St. Paul: Rhetoric Society of America, 1992, 367-369.

Rhetorical Concealment. In Rhetoric 78, edited by Robert L. Brown and Martin Steinemann. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979, 35-44.

Composition as Inquiry. In Help From One To Another, edited by Carol Bashford Naab. Dallas: Taylor, 1979, 122-24.

Nietzsche's Reading of the Sophists. Rhetoric Review 13 (1994): 5-26. Outstanding Essay of the Year Award, 1994.

Gorgias' Use of the Epideictic. Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 281-297.

The Styles of Gorgias. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22 (1992): 43-53.

Sophistic Freedom: Gorgias and the Subversion of logos. Pre/Text 12 (1991): 226-235.

Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants. Explicator 48 (1989): 54.

Dialectical, Rhetorical and Aristotelian Rhetoric. Philosophy and Rhetoric 21 (1988): 232-39.

Transparency and Displacement: Aristotle's Concept of Rhetorical Clarity. Rhetorical Society Quarterly 17 (1987): 413-420.

The Paradox of Textuality: Writing as Entrapment and Deliverance in Notes From Underground. Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1982): 341-52.

Aschenbach's Page and a Half of Choicest Prose: Mann's Rhetoric of Irony. Studies in Short Fiction 14 (1978): 359-68.

Rhetoric and Madness: Robert Pirsig's Inquiry Into Values. Southern Speech Communication Journal 41 (1977): 16-32.

The Rhetorical Example. Southern Speech Communication Journal 41(1976): 121-32.

Misreading the Sophist: Bruce McComiskey's Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. The Review of Communication. Forthcoming, 2002.

Edward Schiappa's Protagoras and Logos. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 25 (1995): 217-20.

Mark Backman's Sophistication. Journal of Business and Technical Writing (1992): 367-69.

"Sophistic Rhetoric and Post-Modern Performance." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, April 1992.

"Thoroughly Modern Milo: James Crumley's Reluctant Detective." Popular Culture Association Convention, 1989, April 1989.

"From Craft To Technology: Word Processing and the Teaching of Composition." Iowa Council of Teachers of English Convention, October 1988.

"Arrows of Desire: The Spiritual Erotics of Bob Dylan's Sara." Popular Culture Association Convention, Atlanta, May 1983.

"A Prose of the World: Margaret Atwood's Language of Being." Northern Plains English Convention, Fargo, North Dakota, March 1980.

"Issues and Topics in Rhetorical Inquiry." University of Michigan Symposium, Ann Arbor, November 1979.

"Invention, Emotion and Delivery: An Integration of Rhetorical Inquiry." Central States Speech Association Convention, Chicago, April 1977.

"Robert Pirsig's Art of Rhetoric." Iowa Council of Teacher of English Convention, Pella, Iowa, April 1976.

Rhetoric and Its Degenerations. Iowa Council of Teachers of English Convention, Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 1975.

Pre/Text Interviews. September, October, 2002.