Matthew Picchietti

1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1835-2561.2012.00193.x This is an academic source. The intended audience is definetely much more business and stats minded people. It ranks and describes how the ranks are handed out to multiple business journals, as well as the Universities they were written at. I will analyze this source for helpful tips and tricks on how to make a piece about business insightful. The fact that this is critiquing other journals will give me a good idea of what to do and what not to do. 2. https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/advantages-international-trade/ This is also an academic source. However, unlike the first article, this one is intended more for the average person. This article will be useful because of the way that it is organized, it is a list and very organized. It is about the advantages of overseas trade and is a very easy read compared to many of the other articles that I have come across ...

We are writing this essay to familiarize ourselves with the style of writing that we will be using and seeing in our field. For example, I am a business major, and I will have to write papers, or give speeches with the main goal of persuading someone to buy something. I think that interviewing an expert in the field will be a great way to get some personalized questions that I would not otherwise receive from a website, while also getting familiarized with interviewing, something that I'm sure I will use a lot in my field of study. This will largely improve my research skills because of the fact we need to find 3 academic and 3 non-academic sources. 1. Where would I start to try and find an academic source? 2. What type of questions should I be asking the interviewee? 3. How does APA work? I am not familiar with it at all, I used MLA all throughout High school.

Rhetoric comes from the Greek word "speak". It is using speech or writing in an argumentative way. Plato, a famous philosopher, called rhetoric "the art of winning the soul by discourse". Meaning that it is an art, and the best of the best can win over your feelings of a subject through persuasion by speech or writing. Donald Trump is the modern master of this subject. His speeches may have no factual evidence, they may not even be correct, but he can persuade the audience with ease. He is able to make ideas and phrases stick in your head using ethos, pathos and logos. According to a website one should follow rhetoric if he/she wants to be an editor in a political news site.

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