Every time we write something, whether it's an English paper or an email to a friend or a résumé, we face some sort of rhetorical writing. Every piece of writing has a purpose, a certain audience, a specific attitude, and genre. All these elements are important in helping us make choices we need to make as we write. Innumerable times each day we are bombarded by visual rhetoric, the use of images to persuade or influence an audience. The persuasive component of visual rhetoric lies in its capability to immediately connect with our emotional mind before the logical part of the brain is signaled. propaganda which is a form of persuasion used to influence people's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. The author Demirae Dunn, Wrote “ Propaganda vs. …show more content…
Political Persuasion in Politics: Public Beware,” is a spotlight on first year writing. It was published by the journal Young Scholars in Writing. Young Scholars in Writing is a peer-reviewed journal for undergraduates, it was founded in 2003 by Laurie Grobman and Candace Spigelman at Penn State Berks. YSW publishes research and theoretical articles by undergraduates of all majors on the subjects of rhetoric, writing, writers, discourse, language, and related topics ( Young Scholars In Writing). YSW is lead by two main beliefs: that research should and can be a critical component of rhetorical education, and that undergraduates engaged in research should have opportunities to share their work with a broader audience of students, scholars, and teachers through national publication. All submissions made by students are first read by the editor, who sends papers that seem to fit the journal’s general specifications to one or two peer reviewers, either undergraduate students or student authors who have previously published in Young Scholars. Submitting an article to YSW should be 10-25 double spaced pages in MLA format. Submissions must have a note from the student's professor verifying that the submissions' …show more content…
Political Persuasion in Politics: Public Beware,” to persuade the voters to know and understand propaganda. The author had organized his article using headings which made it easier for the reader to follow along. The article was published through the journal Young Scholars in Writing. Dunn had used research from authors and news editors. The author had wrote the journal to all people, but mostly to voters. If people want to vote, they should make a good decisions and should not get affected by propaganda. “ Propaganda vs. Political Persuasion in Politics: Public Beware,” was rhetorically powerful: it changes the minds of the voters to actually look back and never believe propaganda, it persuades people be more engaged and educated to make better choices, to support the author that propaganda is unethical even if it serves “ good cause” because it uses appeals to play on the emotions of voters, and served as a powerful article that generations could read and learn from it. The author had structured his essay in a clear organized way not only for a good understanding of his article, but he understands how the audience going to think and their experience about the