[ENGL 101B] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL101B
• Professor: Michael Mac Donald

Document Summary

Often misunderstood as superficial art of deceptiveness. Criticism can be traced back as far as the art of rhetoric itself. The art of effective expression, persuasion, and argument in speech, writing, and other media: found law, politics, science, commerce, etc, today more powerful than ever. To introduce students to the field of rhetorical studies: concepts beginning in greece and ancient rome to its use in today. We are all practicing rhetoricians in our daily lives: influence and persuasion, tool for shaping beliefs and action, practical and pragmatic art that has been embedded in law and politics for. 2. 5k years: productive and creative art used in different sorts of literary works. A storehouse of tactics and strategies by which we seek to persuade others. Oldest and most international field of intellectual inquiry: one might say the first systematic discipline, keystone in western education.