Some Rhetoric Vocabulary

Rhetoric-the art of crafting a message to affect change in a particular audience, art of persuasion, being able to to see the available means of persuasion in any given situation.

Affordance- something a design enables you to do

Constraint- something a design restricts you from doing

Genre- a kind or type of something

Conventions- characteristics that define a genre

Summary- pulling out main ideas in a text, putting them in your own words

Paraphrase- short summary communicating your idea of what an original text means

Claim- a statement put forth as true that needs evidence to be convincing

Thesis- the main claim of an argument

Ethos- quality of writing, writer’s qualifications or the authorities cited

Pathos- rhetor involves subjects that induces a listener’s emotion

Logos- employs deductive or inductive reasoning

Primary Research- gathering data yourself

Secondary Research- reporting and using data others have gathered

 

2 Responses

  1. Mrs. A at |

    Hi! I don’t think “logos” means “logic”… What do you mean?

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