bk. I. Rhetoric: an advanced primer ; 1. Dialectic as dialogue: the order of the ordinary ; 2. Rhetorical invention: notes toward an American low modernism ; 3. Grammatical judgment: it all depends on what you mean by "home" ; 4. Logical proof: perspicuous representations
bk. II. Four beginnings for a book on Robert Frost ; 5. Lessons in the conversation that we are: The "death of the hired man" (invention) ; 6. Naming being in "West-running brook" (judgment as acknowledgment) ; 7. Giving evidence and making evident: civility and madness in "Snow" (proof) ; 8. Ordinary language brought to grief: "Home burial".
Rhetorical investigations : studies in ordinary language criticism by Walter Jost. ISBN 0813922496. Published by University Press of Virginia in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.