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How my rhetoric PhD makes me a better storyteller
Rhetoric is the history and practice of non-fiction storytelling. Storytelling is about creating a narrative where you take the audience from point a to point z. And rhetoric is how you get them there. Most people think that Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric is “persuasion.” But that’s only partly true. Rhetoric is “the ability to find the available means of persuasion in any given situation.” Rhetoric isn’t focused on the result … because you can’t control what the result w
6 days ago
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