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Rhetoric: Add it to your toolbox

You may not realize it, but you use rhetoric every day. (Whether you use it well or not is another question.) Simply stated, rhetoric is the art of using words to communicate and persuade.

The study of rhetoric has a long and storied history, going back at least to Aristotle. Beth Agnew has created an excellent resource on rhetoric over at Squidoo; I recommend that you check it out and bookmark it. For more, you can try Dr. Gideon Burton’s Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric.

Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 07:22AM by Registered CommenterRoy Jacobsen in | CommentsPost a Comment

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