Scott F. Crider is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas, where he teaches courses in advanced composition and classical rhetoric. He has written extensively on Shakespeare and the English renaissance and is at work on a volume titled With What Persuasion: An Essay on Shakespeare and the Ethics of Rhetoric.
"In The Office of Assertion: the Art of Rhetoric Scott Crider has
written a brief, elegant text on a topic all too often treated
esoterically. He adjures readers, in a reference to Wendell Berry,
to 'stand by' their words, proceeding to demonstrate the wa
"Mr. Crider's Office of Assertion is the best guide to the writing
of essays that I have ever seen, in many years of college and
university teaching at Columbia and Dartmouth. It is designed for
good students at either of those levels. It goes beyond the
essential preliminaries to the elements that produce a genuinely
good writer, and, far from being dogmatic, it is exploratory and
immensely practical."-- Jeffrey Hart, Professor of English Emeritus
at Dartmouth College and author of Smiling Through the Cultural
Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education
"Scott Crider has done what I thought impossible: he has found the
strong elements of current composition theory and folded them into
crisp, cogent account of traditional rhetoric. The result is a
brief, lucid, yet thorough introduction to rhetoric for st
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