Donald Trump has been impeached, the third president to be impeached. My colleagues in rhetoric, most of whom were stunned when Trump won the 2016…
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These are the tricks used by websites to increase click-through rates: Second-person language First-person, sometimes, as relationship builder Hyperbole about knowledge and information Offers of…
Comments closedLiberty. Freedom. Justice. Equality. Rights. Privilege. Fairness. (This list could continue to include hundreds of words and thousand of phrases.) Conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians… each…
Comments closedRhetoric, as a field, has long admitted that pathos persuades more people than reason and logic. The Greeks and Romans recognized the danger of this…
Comments closedWe know that emotional appeals work. Pathos trumps logos and ethos. That’s reality. The ancient rhetoricians knew this. Behavioral economists know this. It’s clear to…
Comments closedMemes simply purify our social circles; they are partisanship intensifiers. It is a shame, but this is how humans create their communities. The internet allows…
Comments closedI remind students that reading and composing are acts that reflect our biases. There is a long essay in the New York Times supporting my…
Comments closedWhen people in the field of rhetoric discuss social construction and cultural influences on creativity, I often wonder if we are too quick to dismiss…
Comments closedWhen we discuss rhetoric in our first-year composition (FYC) courses, it is easy to overlook issues of philosophical and ideological bias. True, we tell our…
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