Introduction: the space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman
Rhetoric revealed. Should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller
Power, publics, and the rhetorical uses of democracy / Candice Rai
The public work of critical political communication / M. Lane Bruner
Rhetorical engagement in the cultural economies of cities / John M. Ackerman
Democracy and its limitations / Ralph Cintron
Rhetorical interventions. Rhetorical engagements in the scientist's process of remaking race as genetic / Celeste M. Condit
Going public in a disabling discourse / Linda Flower
Sophists for social change / David J. Coogan
Knowledge work with the Cherokee Nation: the pedagogy of engaging publics in a praxis of new media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green
On being useful: rhetoric and the work of engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill
Remaking rhetoric in universities and publics. Finding a place for school in rhetoric's public turn / David Fleming
Mediating differences / Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller
A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu
The community literacy advocacy project: civic revival through rhetorical activity in rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe
The prospects for the public work of rhetoric: a coda on codes / Susan C. Jarratt.