Rhetorical Analysis Of Sister Scientist

Natural hair care is a topic that I am extremely passionate about, so when the Beauty Rush College Tour announced that their first stop would be Southern University, I was immediately interested. Erica Douglas, also known as “Sister Scientist,” is a chemical engineer who specializes in the beauty industry and natural hair care. During the Beauty Rush College Tour event held in Southern University’s Event Center, she spoke to black college ladies about natural hair care. Sister Scientist inspired her audience to be more knowledgeable and attentive to the health of their hair by using logical organization, vivid examples and visual aids, and explicit scientific information.
Taking care of natural hair involves several aspects that many people do not consider. Sister Scientist addressed many of the mistakes that naturals make by talking about her own experiences and struggles that she encountered while having natural …show more content…
There were about one hundred ladies in attendance, and everyone seemed engaged and attentive to her message. Her personal experiences and visual examples made her information much easier to understand and helped the audience to be able to take what they learned and apply it to their lives. Additionally, her diction and dialect made her speech more receptive. As African American women, there is a certain attitude and confidence she displayed that made her more like a friend or a sister of the black women that she spoke to rather than just an intellectual expert. On the other hand, seeing her throughout the speech was a challenge. She chose to speak from the floor where the audience was sitting rather than standing on the stage. While standing among the audience made it easier to interact with them, it made it much harder to see her visual demonstrations. Occasionally, the audience to become disengaged and talk over the speaker. However, this did not hinder the information that she gave