Rhetoric is the correct use of language in order to communicate across to an audience effectively. It isn’t about what is written or said, but how it is written or said. One key element of rhetoric is the audience addressed, because without knowing who the audience is one fails to communicate effectively. People can appeal to a number of different audiences, but they have to know who those people are in order to know what terms, what language, what expressions, and what facts to use. Rhetoric helps to address an audience effectively in order to get a certain point across effectively.
Project 1:
Rhetoric was definitely used in my project 1, just like it is used in basically all writing. After some time, I was able to understand my targeted …show more content…
We needed to be able to understand how a campaign used different forms of language and communication in order to effectively appeal to an audience. For, example the campaigns all had different tactics that they used to attract voters, hence, this was them using rhetoric. We needed to be able to understand our audience and how rhetoric was used specifically to target them. For example, without understanding rhetoric, I would not have been able to write about the different ways that Hillary Clinton appealed to women because I would not understand that there was more than one way, and even if I did understand it I would not comprehend the reasons behind it. I would not have understood that Hillary spoke about the importance of the wage-gap or of a woman being more than just an image specifically to target women voters. Thus, rhetoric was the foundation for our paper, because it was needed in order to write an effective …show more content…
In this project in particular, we had to understand that the author of the article was using specific words with the purpose of informing the audience, but while doing so they were also being unintentionally biased. The article I worked on, "5 Reasons to Vote for Donald Trump", was a satire, therefore, I had to understand that the author was purposefully using satire to inform the audience of 5 reasons why they shouldn 't vote for Trump.
When writing the spin of the article I also used rhetoric because I used specific words in order to get my purpose across. I used certain words, and changed certain information around in order to effectively demonstrate to the audience why they should vote for Trump. Hence, I took the opposite approach of the original author by not using satire. I used what I believe was the best way to communicate my information across, thus I used
Project 1:
Rhetoric was definitely used in my project 1, just like it is used in basically all writing. After some time, I was able to understand my targeted …show more content…
We needed to be able to understand how a campaign used different forms of language and communication in order to effectively appeal to an audience. For, example the campaigns all had different tactics that they used to attract voters, hence, this was them using rhetoric. We needed to be able to understand our audience and how rhetoric was used specifically to target them. For example, without understanding rhetoric, I would not have been able to write about the different ways that Hillary Clinton appealed to women because I would not understand that there was more than one way, and even if I did understand it I would not comprehend the reasons behind it. I would not have understood that Hillary spoke about the importance of the wage-gap or of a woman being more than just an image specifically to target women voters. Thus, rhetoric was the foundation for our paper, because it was needed in order to write an effective …show more content…
In this project in particular, we had to understand that the author of the article was using specific words with the purpose of informing the audience, but while doing so they were also being unintentionally biased. The article I worked on, "5 Reasons to Vote for Donald Trump", was a satire, therefore, I had to understand that the author was purposefully using satire to inform the audience of 5 reasons why they shouldn 't vote for Trump.
When writing the spin of the article I also used rhetoric because I used specific words in order to get my purpose across. I used certain words, and changed certain information around in order to effectively demonstrate to the audience why they should vote for Trump. Hence, I took the opposite approach of the original author by not using satire. I used what I believe was the best way to communicate my information across, thus I used