Sunday, January 21, 2007

Rhetoric conversation - good vs bad.

Rhetoric can be seen as a means of persuasion. It is used throughout our daily lives in one way or another. I believe that rhetorical ideas can be seen as good and bad. Sometimes, persuasion is required to get things done. This sence of persuasion can be really good if your job requires selling items. That person is going to have to try and persuade you, whether the items he is selling are good or not. If he can not persuade a person to buy his products, he will not make money. So I think it can help different careers (in a sense), which is a good thing. There are certain types of bad rhetoric though. A lot of the rhetoric people see on the Internet can be seen as not good. It gets in the way. Most people will not even consider looking at this. "Pop ups" are a main source of rhetoric on the Internet. Lots of people either avoid these things or just ignore them entirely. They can be a annoyance. When you want to do something online, you want to do it right away, not having to see this random pop up on your screen. It gets in the way, and most people will just get rid of it anyways. Commercials can almost be seen as the same way. I see people switching channels during the commercials all the time. They do this because its getting in the way and that is why I think rhetoric can also be seen as a bad thing.

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