Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, The Writer’s Style is not only a style guide for a new generat
The Widow's Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when A
Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an Africa
Drawing on his personal fascinating story as a prosecutor, a defendant, and an observer of the legal process, Paul Butler offers a sharp and engaging critique of our criminal justice system. He argue
Butler, an African-American Harvard Law grad, was an ambitious federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, when he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit. Here, he gives an ins
Style in Rhetoric and Compositiongathers essays that trace the evolution of the study of style and illustrates the debates that continue to shape style pedagogies within the field of rhetoric a
Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only i
