The Importance Of Rhetoric In Education

Rhetoric should be required for all high school students to learn because not only does rhetoric hold value in academic life but in everyday life as well. High school students should be taught rhetoric in the classroom because of the immense advantage given to them with in-class and standardized test essays. By studying rhetoric, students gain the ability to feel comfortable with whatever prompt they are assigned to write about, and are able to analyze sources more effectively than they were able to do before. Rhetoric has helped me personally in analyzing sources because I am able to elevate my understanding as to why the author chose to use those strategies or devices. Furthermore, the act of being proficient at rhetorically analyzing aids students into meeting the standards the state sets for them (Andrus-Henry 76); this means that students have the potential to meet- if not exceed- state standards on standardized tests, therefore increasing the test scores and setting a higher bar for others. Samantha Andrus- Henry of Grand Valley State University in Michigan offers her opinion on the matter of students learning rhetoric in school, …show more content…
Some speakers will use fallacies, or faults in an argument, in order to persuade their audience to do what they want them to do and; most people will overlook or not notice fallacies the speaker uses. When students graduate and are exposed to the “real world”, they will need to know how to analyze others to find who they really are, for example government officials. Government officials are important in the sense that they will be the people running the town or state the student is living in, and should be chosen with great precision. In school students should learn and understand rhetorical devices and fallacies in order to analyze the credibility of a