With the year-end fast approaching, many organizations are diligently wrapping up their strategic planning for the upcoming year. While crafting a robust strategy is commendable, Harvard Business ...

When you advertise your small business, you can compete with larger, more expensive ad campaigns by using the techniques big advertisers use. Rhetoric is the artful use of language, and the purpose of ...

It's time to retire the false choice. As a rhetorical device, particularly as a political rhetorical device, the false choice has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any. The phrase has become a ...

Attempts to persuade may be argumentative or non-argumentative. Non-argumentative means of persuasion include making eyes, brushing hands, and putting a good meal onto the table. But much more common, ...

Having completed the inaugural day festivities and surprising guests on White House tours, President Barack Obama will be heading back to the work of governing the country. While he does so, we ...

Self-reflection as a rhetorical device. Source: J. Krueger "Recht kriegen ist besser als Recht haben."—Alte Bauernweisheit This old German adage can be rendered as "It is better to win an argument ...

President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday featured one of his favorite rhetorical devices: the false choice. “Within America, there has long been a tension between those who ...