Today was Jim Corder day in my Digital Citizenship/Expository Writing classes. I use the Corder piece to provide a substantial definition for rhetoric–since I study one of the few things in a University that people rarely recognize. If you study biomedical chemistry, people likely have no idea what you do, but they know what you do. Rhetoric, however, is often a mystery.
Anywho, here’s my brief definition(s):
- How humans create/digest/circulate meanings
- How to get others to listen to your meaning
- persuasion, conflict, argument, change, identity, cohesion
Notice the shift from plural to singular.
