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Purpose Of Rhetorical Analysis

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Blake Levy
Professor Tilley
ENGL 1100
11 December 2017 An Artform Have you ever been in an argument and after some time of going back and forth you begin to slowly realize that perhaps you were wrong the entire time? After being showered with statements and positions on the topic you feel as if you have changed your views in accordance to the other’s viewpoint. This scenario is the basic explanation of the purpose of rhetoric: to, in short, change the beliefs of the opposing side. When used correctly it can be a powerful tool. Rhetoric is an artform of many styles, such as visual rhetoric, rhetorical analysis, and rogerian style formats, that allow you to choose and model your own argument to shape your position and when used wisely …show more content…

Rhetorical analysis focuses strictly on how the author writes and not what the author writes. It analyzes the strategies used and the order in which they are used. Overall, this looks at all of the pieces and strategies used and discusses why they were used in the precise way that they were. This makes rhetorical analysis different from any other strategy by allowing the writer to look at other writers’ works and learn from them. Therefore, the use of rhetorical analysis can expand the knowledge of writers on the subject as well as the use of rhetoric by taking away techniques from the analysis. It can also be useful in understanding the other side of any argument. Once you understand a speaker’s thought process and delve into why the speaker organized things the way that they did gives the audience a deeper knowledge of that point of view. I have never been given the opportunity to learn about rhetoric much in the past. With this skill of rhetorical analysis it allows me to gain more knowledge in the subject in a new way. Instead of learning from powerpoints and lectures I can discover my own style and strategies by learning from other writers and how they use it. This skill sets up a bright future in rhetoric whenever I need to use it in future classes. Understanding other writers thought process is important to not coming off as one sided and close minded. It is hard to communicate with anyone when they come off as that which is where rogerian style arguments can

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