Apri 9th: Rhetoric

What rhetoric is to me
The first time I heard the word rhetoric I was watching a World War II documentary on the History Channel. It was discussing Hitler's rise to power and how his strong skills in rhetoric allowed him to rise to the top very very quickly in Europe; it is for this reason that I often view rhetoric in a negative sense. After that, I came to find that rhetoric wasn't only for dictators. I think rhetoric has less to do with what you say and more to do with how you say it. Sounds cliche, I know, but from what I have learned rhetoric is how comfortable in front of crowds, how efficiently you portray a message, how effectively you speak to your audience, and so on and so on. I've never really been a fan of rhetoric because I've never been any good at it. I get really nervous and studdery in front of crowds. As far as how rhetoric plays into my subculture, that is hard to pin down. I suppose when it comes to me 'recruiting' people to try is out I will have to develop some sort of effective rhetoric in order to convince them it will be fun. I think the most likely way I'll be using rhetoric in my final project is through the interviews. I will need to use rhetoric to effectively reach my interviewees with my questions. And then I will use a little to add their answers into the paper itself.