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Rhetorical Principles
Introduce you to the skills of critical thinking, reading, and writing. Help you define and assess the rhetorical situation in which a certain argument is made. Teach you to understand and critically evaluate the arguments presented in various sources to which you refer. Provide guidance as to how to create an effective argument in your own writing.
Definitions: Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of dressing up some unimportant matter so as to fool the audience for the time being Ezra Pound How do you understand this definition of rhetoric? Do you agree with it? Why (not)?
Definitions: Text
What is text? Are the these examples of text? Why (not)?
Rhetorical Triangle
Chose any text (mentioned previously) and answer the following questions: - Who created this text? - Who did they create this text for? Author - Why did they create this text?
Audience
Purpose
How can you infer the purpose of the text? What elements of the text do you refer to in order to find information about its purpose?
Rhetorical Tools
Considering the definition of rhetoric, what are the different ways we can use rhetoric? What are the rhetorical tools? Can you think of any examples?
Rhetorical Appeals
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
The most valued appeal in academic argument. Accomplished through inductive or deductive reasoning, or specifically Definition, Evidence from other sources, or Expert testimony
Appeals to emotion are accomplished through Sensory description Value-laden diction Anecdotes Objects of emotions (peoples, abstract concepts, etc.)
Ethos
Logos
Audience
Purpose
Pathos