The Art of Rhetoric (E-Porfolio)

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Rhetoric is  hide & seek.

     We appeal our personal interests and opinions on public issues to the people through a process of implementation and the people try to figure out what was said through rhetorical analysis. We live in a diversified culture in which people are in a wide range of personal interests. By delivering our voice through well-executed rhetorical practice, our voice may gain more audience than we could have without rhetorical practice. By hiding (implementation) our interest in the voice of rhetoric, we gain not only general audiences but attract people who understand rhetoric, try to seek our point and share their point of views.

Rhetoric is an inheritance.

    We live in a society where a technological advance seems to fly at a speed of light. A smartphone that I bought last year is already obsolete. Scientific theories and information can be challenged in any moment and may be changed. Living in a society in which a certainty of uncertainty dominates the atmosphere, we know there is one thing that does not change: Rhetoric. Since Mesopotamia civilization was established, people has practiced rhetoric, defined it, and  pass it down to other generations. Our ancestors practiced rhetoric, we practice, and we are supposed to pass down the art of rhetoric to our next generation.

Rhetoric is our life.

    Rhetoric is not just a subject that we learn in school but it is like H20 that we breathe in our everyday life. Rhetorical practice is not an action that we only do in public speakings or persuasive essay but we do when we communicate with our family, friends, and people. The potential range of rhetoric is broad enough to include not only communication but  our thinking and our being as well. This is why it is so important to learn Rhetoric and practice sincerely to integrate our life to better better and mature than it used to be. The sincere practice of rhetoric will enrich the quality of our life and individual in the society where everything tend to be disposable and easily forgotten.


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Everybody is different

When I am not try to performe rhetoric, such as writing an essay or a speech, I think of rhetoric in this way:

Rhetoric is a territory that I shall never conquer not because I can't but because I do not want to.

However, as soon as an essay or a speech assignment is given from a professor, my perspective has to compromise with a threat from a small number that will measure my success in college. Then, I become nervous and fall in a deep sea of agony where I try to find a way to be sound cool and awesome like J.F.K in his speeches. Some say if you like to read and are a good reader, you may be good at writing as well. However, I, being an living example, can prove that they are wrong. I love reading novels, and newspapers but I am just not a good writer. Unfortunately I think I am a good writer and my essays always seem to be like M.LK's "I have a dream," but I don't know why my essays don't look good as cool as to other people than they do to me.

So I was thinking about this problem a lot in last semester in which a grade of one class is determined by only three essays in that class and I realized I might have different tast of reading and writing than that of other people. Everybody has different taste but I think mine is something more deviant according to the grades of my essays. After getting through some big failures in getting good grades in essays, I realized that I am not a writer who loves to write heavy things, such as politics, school works, and other acadimic writing. I become a really good writier when I write letters to my friends (Yest, I still do write letters). By the way, I was little creeped out when Professor Kramer mentioned about spraying fragrance on letters because that is exactly the same thing that I always did whenever I sent letters to my friends.

Anyway, my point is that everybody has her own specialty in performing rhetoric. I am good at performing pathos in rhetoric and somebody may be good at performing ethos or logos. So, even my grade tells that I am not a good writer but I believe that my future wife will appreciate me being as a man of rhetoric as long as I don't show her my grades in highschool and college.

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Thank you Mrs. Kramer for teaching me in this semester! I just loved your lectures!