I never really thought about rhetoric as being an important aspect of my life, but I guess I see now that I never really recognized how often different forms of rhetoric are used. I definitely see that people use persuasion in more ways than what they consciously recognize, and I think that I'll be able to use that to my advantage when I'm a teacher.
I won't necessarily be trying to persuade my students into doing something, though teachers do hope to get their students animated about their subject matter. However, I think that it would be more important for me to teach my students how to use rhetoric themselves. I am a big believer in class discussions, and I think that it would be really interesting to teach my students how to use the different components of rhetoric within their discussions.
I think that it's obvious that people subconsciously use forms of rhetoric all the time to try to prove their point or to convince people to do something or think something. I think that if I taught my students how to recognize these forms of rhetoric, they could use them to their advantage. They could argue their own points better, and they could recognize persuasion techniques being used on them.
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I think one of the main reasons to learn and understand rhetoric is to recognize persuasion techniques being used on them. It is interesting how often teachers can use persuasion to further a students knowledge... since I am not going into teaching I am searching for ways to use persuasion on someone other than my boss, when im asking for a raise or something.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about using it in class, towards my student. I think that will be a brillant idea because it will give you yourself a challenge in changing the students perspectives on different things you do. This is also, a good things for the students because they may persuade you to think in a different perspective. WHO KNOWS? Rhetoric is a good and bad thing.
ReplyDeleteI like that you said you were going to teach students how to properly use rhetoric themselves. I like classroom discussions as well, and their is no better way for your students to practice!
ReplyDeleteI agree that teaching your students the different aspects of rhetoric would be very useful in their lives. I think that teachers should show their students how to recognize when they are trying to be convinced of something and how to convince others of things because it doesn't seem like for the most part anyone else is taking that job very seriously.
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