Academic Websites &
Electronic Publications

authored by
Gideon O. Burton
Brigham Young University

rhetoric | composition | renaissance | sonnets | Mormon studies | india | film

• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

• Kenneth Burke's Logology

• Better Thesis Statements
• Using Kenneth Burke's Pentad
• Renaissance Composition
• A Short Guide to Copia
• Renaissance Methods of Imitation
• Using Imitation in Composition

• Recommended Readings (in rhetoric and writing)

Renaissance Studies

• Renaissance Composition
• A Short Guide to Copia
• Renaissance Methods of Imitation
• Using Imitation in Composition
• Compose Your Own Sonnet: A Guide

• Humanist Education
• The Reformation & the English Bible
• Reading Gutenberg's Bible
• How to Read a Play by Shakespeare
• Devotional Poetry of the Renaissance

Sonnets

• How to Write a Sonnet
• Sundry Sonnets Analyzed
• Famous Sonnets Analyzed
• Sonnets in Imitation of Scripture
• Sample sonnets by Gideon Burton and his students

Mormon Studies

• Mormon Literature & Creative Arts database

• Mormon Oratory
• Religion and Film Resources

• Mormon Literature Online Anthology
• Mormon Oratory: 19th Century Speeches
• Mormon Oratory: 20th Century Speeches
• The Relief Society Magazine

• Analyzing the Book of Mormon as Literature
• The Literary Book of Mormon
• Mormon Poetry
• Science Fiction and Mormonism
• Mormon Cinema and Mormon Studies
• LDS Academic Publishing

Scholarly Communications & Digital Publishing

• Scholarly Communications Committee -- BYU

• Podcasting Possibilities at BYU
• Podcasting, Pedagogy, and Honors
• Changes to Scholarship in the Digital Age

• An Overview of Bollywood

Film

• Religion and Film Resources