Paxton Kocher's Rhetoric Blog

1.   https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=d7905494-61ca-4bae-974f-de99c43db84c%40pdc-v-sessmgr05&bdata=#AN=103187363&db=afh This first source is an academic journal writing that focuses on solving problems in business marketing through action steps. Also, this piece includes over a dozen empirical studies on effective marketing in the workplace. The findings were that action steps are key in managing a corporate research partnership. I will use this source to show how in academic writing, presenting evidence and data supporting it is key. Also, this academic writing contains a "lessons learned" section, which I found to be informative, but more understandable than the rest of the piece. 2.  https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=d7905494-61ca-4bae-974f-de99c43db84c%40pdc-v-sessmgr05&bdata=#AN=96193085&db=afh This source is an academic source from the Journal...

This assignment is meant to get us familiar with the way we would use rhetoric in our personal fields. In class, we discussed how ethos, or credibility, is a key component of persuasion. By interviewing a profession or expert in our field, we can explore the characteristics and qualifications that make them have such a mastery in the topic. The six writings we are supposed to read, both academic and non-academic, will be another way to see how to address an audience that is relevant to our field. Another added bonus is that we can see how to cite sources correctly, as well as see the formatting of such a paper.               'This assignment reminds me of the synthesis essays I used to write back in high school for AP Language and Composition. I was fairly good at synthesis essays, because there was seven sources given, but you only had to use five. It was easy to find evidence within those provided sources to back my argument, but for this as...

Rhetoric is the study and uses of written, spoken, and visual language, and how these facets of language can be used to persuade. A major example would be legislation, as rhetoric is used in the composition of written and oral proposals to courts of law, councils, and other forms of leadership. Rhetoric focuses on the efficacy of persuasion in a professional setting through a multitude of techniques.

This is my course blog for rhetoric.