Hello, Ian. Here's a link to a site I could not prevent myself from passing on to you: http://rhetoric.byu.edu/. It may at first seem like a very old-fashioned study and mastery, but I can imagine bright young minds benefiting from practiced skills in the art and artifice of rhetoric, especially when challenged by the 24/7, in-your-face modern world of slick uses of persuasion and propaganda and advertising, in the media of nearly every field of endeavor and enterprise. I, myself, intend to spend fifteen or so minutes every day hopefully learning and practicing what I don't know about the art and science of rhetoric which may improve my writing and speech (and reading and listening at the same time). Maybe others will see the benefits of how to better understand how they use language, unconsciously and consciously, ineffectively and effectively.

Your friend, Skip