Posts Tagged as ‘rhetoric’

June 15, 2009

Obama reconnects speaking with information

I’m hoping that Obama is (in addition to cleaning up our international reputation and getting us humane, affordable healthcare) going to change the way we speak and talk and make clarity and substance the standard.

April 17, 2009

Ranting — a fine way to end up flat on your face

There are many rhetorical devices writers and speakers can use to persuade readers and listeners to their side of an argument. Ranting does not number among them.