The use of verbal, visual and/or written communication as a way of persuading an audience into a desired course of action, thus resulting in the collaboration of knowledge between the rhetor and audience.
--Taylor Malkus
--Samantha Schaum
--Laura Chami
--Piper Hurley
--Christina Natale
I agree with your definition for it specifies what the rhetor can use to achieve his/her goals with the audience. I also like the way you stated that it was a collaboration of knowledge between both parties. You all as a group seemed to put a very simple statement to explain rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteI really like your groups definition of rhetoric. I like how you said it resulted in a collaboration of knowledge between the rhetor and the audience. I also like how you included that it is not only the use of verbal communication but visual communication as well.
ReplyDeleteI like this groups definition. It wasn't too short or too long, but it got to the point and included that rhetoric has written and visual componets other than just verbal.
ReplyDelete-Krissy Zampaglione
What a great definition! The only thing that I think you be added is a comment about the devices used, like the appeals, just because communication alone is not rhetoric, it is communication that uses a certain set of materials so to speak to achieve its goal.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Moore