week 12 posting...

What does rhetoric mean to me? I really do not know what rhetoric means, but when I think of it, I think of certain things in ones culture like clothing and materials to perform a sport or anything else. In my culture rhetoric could be the way we dress or the way we act while riding our bikes. Most of the time I see rhetoric used in a negative way, mainly through politics. They lie to persuade people to do something, or just to get their vote. I might use rhetoric in my mini-ethnography by showing how people use it in a negative way from they way we dress.