The Pros And Cons Of Rhetoric

Rhetoric, like many other facets of understanding this world, has been something we’ve used since the Ancient Greeks and Romans. It’s inevitable that we use it every day; even towards the most banal of exigencies, the most trivial of facts, it 's something we’ve just come to take for granted. As a “scientist,” though, I do have to wonder how does rhetoric fall into the world of scientific discourse. Turns out, science is inherently rhetorical; everything in science is the result of discourse between opposing factions trying to determine which is the more accurate depiction of how something works in this world, not to mention the inherent subjectivity of some fields of science (mostly the social sciences since humanity is subjecting itself to …show more content…
In all fairness, however, the reduced utilization of memory and delivery don’t hold much in science, unless we were talking about scientific symposia; the discourse of symposia retains those last two canons given that they essentially are glorified orations of the discoveries that scientists have made. Otherwise, in research/scientific writing, the three other canons remain utilized; invention, inherently contains the stases which was mentioned prior, but also deals with both common and specialized topoi. Arrangement, however, is somewhat straightforward: most papers of science and research utilized a very standard structure, the IMRAD system: abstract (summarizes the whole paper in one paragraph), introduction (explains why this was undertaken), method/materials (discusses the experimental design and the items used), results (explains what was the result of the experiment), and discussion (concluding remarks based on the findings and any other worthwhile material). Usually, deviation from that arrangement of structure is never seen usually due to many restrictions placed on scientific papers; any sort of deviation usually occurs due to structural issues (methodology being omitted due taking too long to explain, or can be read elsewhere), or can be brought because of the results being more important than the actual processes …show more content…
Yet, from the lens of someone in the realm of science, it takes on a more rhetorical approach. It honestly makes more sense if you can piece together what in scientific discourse/literature compares to rhetoric. When the pieces are placed together in ways that work, science and rhetoric being related makes sense; it honestly sounds like rhetoric could be scientific if applied in the way that fits the criteria. Though bits and pieces of rhetorical concepts don’t quite fit the way they’re normally observed; regardless, those minute pieces don’t really disqualify the idea of science being dependent on