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How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

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How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and shares some tips for appealing to an audience’s ethos, logos, and pathos in your next speech.

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Educator
Camille A. Langston
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Director
Hector Herrera
Producer
Pazit Cahlon
Sound Designer
Nick Sewell
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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