Teaching rhetoric today: Ancient exercises for contemporary citizens

Rhetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: Ancient Irish Rhetoric

Our first tendency is to look outside Europe when searching for ancient rhetorics that do not follow the Greco-Roman tradition. After all, much of European culture was strongly influenced by Roman culture, especially following the conquests of Julius Caesar in 58-51 BCE and subsequent conquests that brought most of Europe under Roman control. Rome’s civic practices, including variations of Grec...

“Rhetoric Teaching” is necessary for all of the university students?

A simple search for information sources shows that there are many researches and articles in the field of lecture method and comparison with other types of teaching methods. Interestingly enough, if not with certainty in all of these researches, at least in most of them, the result was in favor of non-lecturing. Previously, the authors emphasized the importance of rhetoric in a Persian letter (...

Teaching Cell Biology Today: Incorporating Contemporary Issues into a Collection of Teaching Modules

Cell Biology for Life, a web-accessible supplement for Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology, is a collection of modules that uses contemporary social issues to teach cell biology. Each module weaves information from many textbook chapters into a coherent scientific story and assignments emphasize the integrated nature of cell biological processes and move away from a fragmen...

Inpatient Teaching Today

patient teacher, perhaps the most intense assignment clinician-educators are asked to assume. Always challenging, inpatient teaching currently must meet requirements and regulations that did not even exist years ago. Today’s handbook of inpatient teaching includes chapters written by (1) the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) governing training experiences and working c...

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City