What is Rhetoric? – Jean Estrada

Thinking of rhetoric as a driving force used by authors, I began to think of the different levels of impact a “strong” rhetoric can have. What first comes to mind is the influence an author can direct to his audience simply by the use of persuasion, conviction, action, and judgments. Building off that, something that has been introduced to me is how all communication between two entities is rhetorical in some way or another. On a broader scale that excludes writing, rhetoric and all its vehicles can do so much with so little. Being that I struggle with identifying writing strategies, such as rhetoric, I hope practice will help me with it in both writing and other avenues.