Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Rhetoric Importance and tools

Being able to grab the reader's attention is very important in order to get your story across. Rhetorical tools are used to make the viewer/reader look and attend to what you've written. Without Rhetorical tools, an essay can be bland and pointless because it does not contain the certain requirements in order to grab someone's attention and focus it on what you're writing. Rhetorical tools are very important in the writing process and they are required when writing a good essay.
Here are a few tools of rhetoric that are commonly used throughout the writing process.
Compare and Contrast- This tool is important so that we may look at certain items or events in an essay and evaluate their properties. With this tool, readers can analyze and understand the similarities and differences in a subject or an image.
Gazes- There are many different types of gazes and a lot of them appeal to the mass audience. If we look at political gaze, we can see the separation of political parties and where people place their values in our country. There are many other gazes and they are all used to appeal to a certain audience.
Chronology- When writing an essay, it is important to keep all of your events in order. This makes an essay readable and allows the words to flow between events in a correct manner. Not using Chronology results in a jumbled essay where no one is capable of understanding where they're supposed to be in the essay.
Cause and Effect- When we think Cause and effect, we can relate it to Chronology. It is important to keep all the events in order, but cause and effect is what ties them all together. If event A led into event B, which eventually allowed to get to event C, then that is an example of cause and effect. With this Rhetorical tool, readers are capable of understanding what is going on, what has happened, and what can happen in your essay.
Thesis Statement- When writing an essay, it is important that the reader knows what you're writing about. The Thesis Statement explains to the audience what you intend to write about throughout the entire essay. The Thesis is introduced, explained, and then summed up in the conclusion.

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