Understanding Rhetoric Analysis

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The First Thing I Learned from Issue 3 in the book Understanding Rhetoric Every essay has a massage which might be for the good or bad of the people and every author’s goal is to make people read, understand, and believe his message in that essay. However, sometimes the wrong tone could make a great author look like a fool where a different tone could make him sound more interesting. The superhero in the book Understanding Rhetoric called the tones as “outfits” which can be changed based on the situation. To continue of the idea of “outfits” the superhero analogy was for every event we were different outfit; same for tones. Thus, in each writing, there must be a different tone if the story was addressed to kids then it must be written

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