The Role Of Rhetoric In College

Rhetoric is what can be known about a subject; it is engaged in speech or writing. Rhetoric is a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. This technique can convince, please, or influence an audience. It achieves a particular emphasis or effect. Rhetoric is any communication used to change the perspectives of others.

In a May 2003 persuasive article published by USA Today titled “College isn’t for Everyone”, the author W.J. Reeves states “about 15 million people in America are enrolled in college.” This is a staggering amount considering the fact that many people are in college for all the wrong reasons. About half of the Americans enrolled in college are there because they feel they owe it to their families. Only a small number of Americans in college actually feel it is necessary for successful lives. In this article, Reeves recollects on his experiences as a college English professor at an institution in New York. He speaks of how he believes that many students truly do not want to be in college. You can tell this by his stories of tardiness,

Rhetoric is the study of how writers and speakers use words to influence an audience. Pathos, Logos, and Ethos are examples of rhetorical devices, where the rhetorician would appeal to an audience to prove a point. In both the Declaration of Independence and The American Crisis #1, the authors use several examples of rhetoric to persuade their audience in the 1700s, to separate themselves from England.

Often times in daily life, a person will use rhetoric. Whether it’s arguing with a sibling or the sound of an alarm, rhetoric is in use. Rhetoric is effective persuasion and persuasion is swaying someone to do or believe in something. The reason rhetoric is important to be taught in school is because not only does it often show up in daily life but it can show up in the media as well.

As a modern-day student of English Composition, how is the study of rhetoric and rhetorical canon valuable to me? Prior to beginning this assignment I had very little knowledge of the term rhetoric, or rhetorical cannon when asked to write anything. In elementary school, our teachers taught us sentence structure, vocabulary, and the basics of writing for testing purposes, nevertheless reading this assignment showed me that rhetoric is basically the core of almost everything that we read every day.

In “Why Rhetoric Is Important in My Writing” by Elizabeth Jimenez, she describes how rhetoric is powerful in writing and how to use rhetoric effectively. According to Jimenez, “…rhetoric generally means the study and use of persuasive communication (or argument) …” (Jimenez 44), persuading an audience to influence “action” is powerful writing. Using rhetoric effectively means using academic arguments in writing which is a method used to compare views on controversial topics and allows students to persuade the audience of their view by using supporting evidence. Group activities is another method that increases the effectiveness of rhetoric by letting the students collaborate on paper topics and exchange views through academic conversation.

What is rhetoric? Rhetoric is a convincing or persuasive way of talking or writing. There are three main elements of rhetoric: logos, ethos, and pathos. Each one of these helps you make the argument that you need to make. All three of these uses something to make an argument with such as logos uses logic, ethos uses ethics or image, and pathos uses emotions.

Students who take English 101 “will learn about rhetoric- about what makes a text persuasive and how writers appeal to their intended audiences” (Rhetorical Choices 2).

Rhetoric should be taught in schools because rhetoric can be used to achieve personal goals, knowing how to identify false rhetoric can help students identify false logic in arguments and students can be disadvantaged to being more prone to use false rhetoric in debate.

“Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.” Ray Comfort couldn’t have said it better. Rhetoric is a very powerful tool used in the English language. It has the power to conform people’s minds to fit the ideal society or influence their opinions about a certain subject. It is everywhere! It can be found in books, movies, commercials, debates, and speeches just to name a few. In Aristotle’s book, Rhetoric, he mentions all of the analytical strategies that are used when this literary art is practiced. These strategies will be applied to three different works of literature.

Studying rhetoric can improve society because it can help us to be persuasive about the thing we care about in nature. We can learn about nature and other important things by studying all kinds of composition. All of society will benefit if they all learn the to read composition and learn rhetoric.

The term rhetoric came to life around the 8th century when sophist, who were originally poets and teachers began to spreading learning to those ready to pay. As years went by sophist focused more on expressive speech and rhetoric causing people to believe they can answer all questions. As a result, they were given the name “modern thinkers” because they knew everything, so everybody believed what they were saying. Yet Plato came along and said the sophist people were greedy people who decorated language to deceive and gain power(rhetoric). Then came along Aristotle who separated out philosophy, leaving sophism and coming to his own conclusion about rhetoric. “[The function of rhetoric] is not to persuade but to see he available means of persuasion in each case.”

Rhetoric is “the speaking or writing that’s intended to persuade”. Rhetoric is also a word that uses language to persuade effectively. For example, if you are going to a job interview, you are going to sit up straight and dress well and speak eloquently to increase the possibility of obtaining the desired job. People encounter rhetoric in their daily basis. One can encounter rhetoric things such as first impressions, how one perceives another person based on their clothing, on if they wear makeup, if they look clean, in books, in articles such as in magazines, how people sound when they talk, how their sent is, and their aesthetic. This are just some examples how we encounter rhetoric things on a daily basis.

When our Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math modules were updated, our district added the SOLIDWORKS program to our curriculum. SOLIDWORKS offers 3D CAD software tools used globally by engineers, designers, manufacturers, and technology professionals in a wide range of industrial, medical, scientific, consumer, and transportation fields to design and manufacture products. I quickly realized how beneficial this software could be to my students, particularly those interested in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, and design careers, and that I needed to become proficient with this software. I began accessing online tutorials and then attended training to obtain certification as a SOLIDWORKS Accredited Educator. My students were using

Visual communication has made a massive impact around the world. Since the birth of the internet, computers, smartphones, and tablets, visual images are readily available from just about anywhere. Communication can be read or looked upon and can take place in different forms. Visual communication offers several benefits including the ability to express our thoughts, feelings, and actions in the shape of an image. Furthermore, communication reached new heights over the last several decades, causing verbal communication to decrease due to social media, emailing and texting. With the amount of time that people spend on their mobile devices, verbal communication will continue to decline and could end up being almost non-existent, while today visual communication dominants nearly all communication forms leaving our younger generation to suffer from a lack of social interaction. Therefore, visual communication has its advantages and disadvantages, impacting all aspects of our life. It supports oral communication, tells a story, and quickly captures attention. However, it also has ethical and legal implications if one elects to use media that does not belong to them.