Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the "logos" as logic and "pathos" as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as ...

One of my all-time favorite posts on the Social Media Contractors blog is by one of our editors, Catherine: Me Talk Witty One Day: The Art of Social Media Rhetoric. First of all, I think it’s spot on, ...

2300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker. This secret forms the basis of nearly every public speaking book written since... In fact, many ...

In preparation for a symposium about teaching writing in the post-truth era, I encountered a little book by one of the symposium participants, Bruce McComiskey. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is ...

Persuasive writing uses words to convince the reader to listen or to act. Great business writers use persuasive writing in proposals, articles, newsletters, memos, emails, requests for meetings, ...

Though it may be the particular purview of philosophers and Vulcans, we all use logic to find some semblance of objective truth. Most people like to think of themselves as reasonable beings, so a ...

David is a best-selling author, speaker and trainer. He is also CEO of IPD, a world-class marketing agency based in Tampa, Florida. I have been a business owner for more than half of my life now and a ...