George Campbell said the purpose of rhetoric is to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passions, influence the will. Our popular media usually define rhetoric as empty language used to advance an agenda. Though difficult to define, rhetoric involves the use of language in a specific, usually public, setting to convince a specific audience to do something. In academic and civic settings, rhetoric surrounds us. In other words, you will learn to look at other s rhetoric more critically, involve yourself in the democracy more fully, and create your own rhetoric more effectively.
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