August
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Class Notes
- Rhetoric is the art of crafting a message to affect change in a particular audience. It is also the art of persuasion and being able to see the available means of persuasion in any given situation.
- The rhetorical situation refers to the audience, time and place, author, and message in communication.
- An affordance refers to a particular design that allows people to do certain things.
- A constraint refers to a particular design that prevents people from doing certain things.
- Kairos appeals to opportunity involving the time, place, audience, and topic.
- A claim is a statement put forth as true that needs evidence to be convincing.
- Thesis: The main claim in an argument.