Rhetoric strives to create active and informed citizens. (Photograph courtesy of Duncan Hull.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Steven Strang
MIT Course Number
21W.747
As Taught In
Spring 2015
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is an examination of the theory, the practice, and the implications of rhetoric & rhetorical criticism. This semester, you will have the opportunity to deepen many of your skills: Analysis, persuasion, oral presentation, and critical thinking. In this course you will act as both a rhetor (a person who uses rhetoric to persuade) and as a rhetorical critic (one who analyzes the rhetoric of others). Both the rhetor and the rhetorical critic write to persuade; both ask and answer important questions. Always one of their goals is to create new knowledge for all of us, so no endeavor in this class is a "mere exercise."
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