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Roberts-Miller: The author of the piece “Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech” is Patricia Roberts-Miller, who is a rhetoric/writing professor. In the introduction to the book Bad Ideas about Writing, it says the book was “written by experts for the educated public” (Ball and Loewe, 2). This piece was written for a general audience, itContinue reading “Blog 2: Roberts-Miller and Bitzer”

Rhetoric is language that is used for a purpose, but one of the main purposes of rhetoric that people first think of is to persuade the readers. The reason I understand rhetoric this way is due to terms such as a “rhetorical question”, which describes a question that is not supposed to be answered butContinue reading “Blog 1: What is Rhetoric?”