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Purdue OWL notes

Rhetoric would be considered almost an awareness of what you are writing or reading in a text

It’s rooted in greek history. Greeks would memorize long speeches using rhetoric techniques.

Only certain classes were allowed to participate in learning rhetoric. Which means only the higher ups were allowed to be educated enough to give long speeches and use forms and techniques pertaining to rhetoric.

Sophists came along and glorified the fact that anybody could learn rhetoric although a lot of people thought that these sophists were ruining the ancient art of learning rhetoric. Because of this, rhetoric became to be viewed as negative.

Overall, rhetoric makes an argument more effective.