If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a second of video is worth thirty thousand words (assuming it is the industry standard 30 frames per second). There are numerous ways to convey ideas, from artwork to music, yet none are as effective nor as popular as video. Through its harmonious blend of visual and auditory elements, it can engage users more effectively than just a picture or song,…

Visuals. They are one of the many mediums through which humans consume content and knowledge. Sonja Foss’s chapter on “Framing the Study of Visual Rhetoric: Toward a Transformation of Rhetorical Theory” explores the realm of visual rhetoric, an artifact that utilizes visuals (whether it may be a painting, advertisement, or image) to convey meaning and communicate with an audience. In defining visual rhetorical artifacts, she explains how they must be symbolic,…

“Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive” (beesgees, 2009). Those born in the ‘70s might shudder at the sound after hearing it so much. For millennials and “Gen Z’ers” with a lack of proper music exposure, Stayin’ Alive was a viral disco-rock song that blew up in 1977 thanks to its role in the movie and soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, heart-felt catchy beat, and the widespread infatuation for…

Public speaking has always been something hard for me. Speeches? Memorizing 500-600+ words and having to say all of it in a 6-minute time frame? Needless to say, I was shaking in my “boots” when I heard of this assignment. I went on the last day of civic artifact speeches, and I am grateful; it allowed me to polish up my speech and learn from what my peers did before…

# Reg. Draft (with Strikethroughs) “Oppa Gangnam Style!”  (officialpsy, 2012) I am sure you are all familiar with the image of a Korean man in this “horse-galloping” stance.  For those living under a rock, “Gangnam Style” was a viral K-pop music video that blew up in popularity in 2012, riding on the tailwind of other dance trends (e.g., Whip and Nae Nae). Fans worldwide, even “K-pop haters”, rejoiced in what seemed…

You probably have seen the familiar image of a Korean man in a horse-galloping stance before. For those living under a rock, “Gangnam Style” was a viral K-pop music video that blew up in popularity in 2012, riding on the tailwind of other dance trends (e.g., Whip and Nae Nae). Fans worldwide, even “K-pop haters”, rejoiced in what seemed like a catchy, trendy song–it became a gateway to Korean culture.…

Pathos, Ethos, Logos. We probably heard those three words in English class before. Aristotle once believed these three words culminated into the word “trust”: pathos refers to one’s attention to emotion, ethos refers to one’s credibility and character, and logos refers to one’s evidence and reasoning. Today, they are quintessential to the development of rhetoric, orally or in writing. While on the surface, these three may have equal importance, this…