Posted by Jackie1776 on October 19, 2009 at 10:56 am permalink Reply students were remarkably adept at
what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog The Internet has created a generation of great writers Posted to: College students Diversity Journalism October 19th, 2009 Del.icio.us Thompson writes that, «Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at
what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
Thompson writes that, «Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at
what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
Not exact matches
As the Roman
rhetorician Quintilian shrewdly observed, one of the best strategies for assuaging the anxieties of an audience is
what he calls concessum non datum.
«Longinus, the first - century Roman
rhetorician, defined the sublime as
what bowls over a crowd.
Modern scholars naturally can't hope to replicate classical - era
rhetoricians» contemporaneous observations about
what seemed to be persuasive millennia ago.
5 That observation, as applied to
what students learn about persuasion, reflects the undeniable fact that many persuasive techniques stem in some way or another from the teaching of classical
rhetoricians.