What Do Students Need To Know About Rhetoric

Roskelly,H. (n.d.) What Do Students Need to Know About Rhetoric? [PDF Version] Retrieved from https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap06_englang_roskelly_50098.pdf This text provides information to students about rhetoric and what they should know. Students should understand that rhetoric is used every day but the awareness of how to utilize rhetoric can enhance the way you communicate. Three aspects of rhetoric covered in the text are the rhetorical triangle, the rhetorical appeals, and visual rhetoric. As a speaker, it is necessary to use the rhetorical triangle to create reliable and compelling arguments. The rhetorical triangle consists of the speaker, the audience and the subject, each of these is dependent on each other to be effective.
Ethos appeals to the writer’s credibility and knowledge about the idea. Pathos appeals to the audience emotions, by giving stories that can connect to the audience’s emotion. In addition, symbolic gesture, graphic designs and action shot in a film all have a rhetorical meaning. The images use visual rhetoric to achieve its purpose. As a student, it is important to know what rhetoric is about because it is a concept that can aim in any form of writing and help a student write effectively. The author Hephzibah Roskelly is an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the former Chief Reader for the AP Language and Composition Exam and former chair of the SAT Reading Committee. The University of North Carolina is the leader in higher education in research, innovative teaching, and public service and the first public university in the nation. This information can be useful to anyone that’s about to study rhetoric and rhetorical strategies. Furthermore, college professor can employ this text to demonstrate to their student the importance of
(2012) Chapter 3 Thinking through the Disciplines. Handbook for writers [HTML Version] Retrieved from https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_handbook-for-writers/s07-thinking-through-the-disciplin.html The purpose of this worksheet show how different academic disciplines have their specific way of communicating Some of the main academic disciplines are Business, Humanities, Natural and Applied Science and Social Science. Each of these has their own specific vocabulary, style, and methods of communication. When doing research each of the different disciplines requires different types of evidence from research sources. Furthermore, when writing or reading a text understanding the discipline’s key genres is important. social science focus on specific methodology, natural and applied science laboratory report focus on a carefully stated hypothesis and prediction of the experiment and humanities focuses on the theoretical foundation. Therefore, getting acquainted with each disciplines terminology and vocabulary is important. Before specializing in a specific disciple most college requires a core curriculum that allows students to explore each major discipline. Identifying the binary oppositions of each discipline allows students to understand specific issues, themes, topics and controversies that they may come across. Some examples of binary oppositions in the different disciplines are, business (labor vs capital), natural and applied science (empiricism vs rationalism),