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Edward P. J. Corbett Edward P. J. Corbett Edward Patrick Joseph, P.J., Corbett was an American rhetorician, educator, and scholarly author. Corbett wrote several books, including "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student", "The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook", "The Elements of Reasoning", "Style and Statement", and "The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions". Corbett taught and did research in the English departments of Creighton University and Ohio State University. As a result of his work, the Edward P. J. Corbett Award is named after him. In 1982 Thomas Willard singled out Corbett as an outstanding "contemporary rhetorician." Corbett died on June 24, 1998 at his home