Pictured here is President Obama's healthcare speech marked with numerous edits. This course will focus on rhetoric and how it is used to inform and shape political and cultural beliefs. (Image is by Pete Souza and in the public domain.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Suzanne T. Lane
MIT Course Number
21W.016
As Taught In
Fall 2016
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course takes rhetoric as a system for designing meaning that helps us understand complex situations and ideas, enlighten and persuade others to act, and thus reshape our world. We’ll study rhetoric systematically and empirically, both analyzing how it works on us as readers, and testing how we can make informed rhetorical choices as we design our own texts.