Week 12

Rhetoric to me mean a form of language that uses certain skills to persuade people of an idea. The skills that it consist of is ethos, logos, and pathos. Rhetoric ideas mainly come from our own beliefs from our credibility within the subculture. Also, it comes from research and reasoning for some of the things that are done in the subculture and from ideas based on your own emotions. I mainly hear the word Rhetoric come from my english classes or my communication classes for when we are writing or speaking to persuade people. I believe many of the rhetoric concepts are used in my subculture because I am trying to persuade people that cheerleaders are not the snobby and stuck up girls that people sometimes think they are. In order for me to persuade them I have used many rhetoric ideas. I have stated my own credibility within the subculture because I am an insider and I have also talked about some of the different rules and things that we do and have given an explanation. Lastly, I have stated my own emotions about some of the stereotypical ideas thought about cheerleaders. For my mini-ethnography I plan on writing about my own experience with the subculture. I also with write about some of the roles cheerleaders go by and some of their rules. I also will talk about some of my on emotions and thoughts about the subculture and give explanations for my ideas.