Writing to be read in the information age. R hetoric is a learned technique, a set of skills, for making an intended effect on an audience or reader. Writers communicate by inhabiting this same social space and sharing expectations about language, discourse, and genres of writing.
Rhetoric is a learned technique for making an intended effect on an audience or reader.
In any kind of writing that seeks to explain something, finding and focusing on a subject is the first, and sometimes hardest, step. Begin by writing down notes to yourself, as thoughts come to you, in the order they come to you. After getting down some notes and ideas from reading over the materials you will write about, begin with a hunch about something you find significant. This hunch or starting idea can become a main point that you can make about your material. In the formal structure of the essay, the main point is called the thesis.