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Humanities & Sciences: ENG/200: Rhetoric and Research

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Importance of Rhetoric and Research to Your Degree Program and Professional Career

Rhetoric dates back to ancient Greece and the great philosophers of the day: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Rhetorical messages are designed to persuade, i.e., attempting to influence how one thinks, believes, or behaves. As students, you will learn how to construct rhetorical messages, both written and oral, that effectively reach your target audience. As consumers of the media, you will learn how to critically evaluate these messages and challenge how they influence society. Critical to building an effective rhetorical message is research. Research allows you to identify credible and academic source material that can be used to build and support your arguments. Without research to support your position, you have nothing but opinion that can be easily dismissed by your audience, i.e., an ineffective message.

Rhetoric is used by researchers in the fields of Math and Science to help expand upon current ideas and frame logical arguments for or against certain positions. Scientific research provides an outlet for researchers to share their findings. People need an understanding of basic scientific principles to help one develop their own conclusions, based upon current research technique.

Synthetic Life

· Doerr, A., (2010). Synthetic life. Nature Methods, 7(1), 37.

Large Hadron Collider will Destroy Earth

· Peterson, M.C., (2014). The Sancho effect: Why the large Hadron collider won't destroy the world, and how it could improve science in the courts. Jurimetrics, 54(3), 303-317.

Climate Change

· Clear thinking needed; Climate change. (2015, November 28). The Economist, 417(8966), 11-12.

Who Owns Space

· Space foundation report reveals global space economy at $323 billion in 2015. (2016, June 22). Targeted News Service, n/a.

Citizen Journalism

· Shaer, M., (2015, February 22). 'The media doesn't care what happens here.' New York Times Magazine, 154-160, 162, 164.

Social Media and Writing Skills

· Risto, A., (2014). The impact of texting and social media on students' academic writing skills. Dissertation @ Tennessee State University, n/a.