Rhetorical knowledge can be defined as the ability of one to use their writing or speaking as effectively as possible.
This was not a numbered daybook entry because it was an in class assignment, however, this assignment helped me learn more about multimodal tools. This was an important exercise for me throughout this course because it helped teach me about the multimodality of a blog. Writing a blog is not the same as writing an essay. When one writes a blog they have the ability to add things such as photos, videos or website links. Overall, this exercise showed me that when writing an online blog it is important to look at the way in which you set up the blog because the information can be displayed in a variety of ways.
This was my ninth daybook entry, titled Rhetorical Appeals, and was helpful with developing my rhetorical knowledge. For this daybook entry, we were to critically read an article on Rhetorical Appeals. After reading and interpreting, I learned that ethos was an appeal to ethics, pathos was an emotion, and logos was an appeal to logic. The reason in which this daybook entry is not placed under the Critical Reading tab is because for this daybook entry there was also an exercise involved that taught me to use my rhetorical appeals correctly. For the exercise, I had to find three ads and explain what appeal was used in each. Overall, this daybook entry helped me learn how to use my appeals when writing my blog. An example of this that can be found in my blog would be in my final blog post I used pathos to appeal to emotion. In my final blog post, I wrote about a girl who committed suicide due to cyberbullying. This appealed to my audience members emotions and made it clear to them that cyberbullying is bad by making them sad that it caused a girl to die. Without this daybook entry, I do not believe that I would have had the ability to appeal to my readers' emotions as well as I did.