Michelle Okeke Heinrich pg. 3-37

Heinrich states in the preface that rhetoric is "the three-thousand-year-old art of persuasion." I am a huge fan of this subject, because I happen to have a hard time separating a fight from an argument. I know there is a lot that I need to learn and this might be that book that graduates me from a girl to a woman. :o) There were some familiar tactics in the Offense section, I've just never put them in the way that he did. For example, the part on controlling the tense, and the difference between blame, value, and choice was something that I have been practicing for years now with my family, but never really knew what I was doing! One point that was highlighted in my mind as well as in the text is never debate the undebatable. That consists of morals, or fact, things that can't be argued. I tend to do that sometimes, but I see now why that has been ineffective.