Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is President of Australian Science Communicators and affiliated with the Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology. We ...

Over at HBR, Roger Schwarz shares with us a telling exercise. Glance over the following three questions and see which is genuine–that is, actually opening up the option for the person you’re talking ...

When you advertise your small business, you can compete with larger, more expensive ad campaigns by using the techniques big advertisers use. Rhetoric is the artful use of language, and the purpose of ...

A new study from Chalmers University of Technology suggests that research misconduct may leave traces in the text itself, not only in how the research is conducted. By analyzing scientific articles ...

Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

Forget libel-proof plaintiffs. In the era of "fake news," it's all about the libel-proof defendant. Just ask Tucker Carlson and Barstool Sports. By Daniel Novack, Sara Shayanian Consumers of news are ...

Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Aggie Agora, Texas A&M University Yet a recent poll has found that 37% of likely voters across the political spectrum agree with a “temporary ...