What's the difference between rhetoric and writing?

Rhetoric


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
  • (n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
  • (n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
  • (n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (2) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (3) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
  • (5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
  • (6) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
  • (7) May’s rhetoric against the Labour leader appeared to have toughened significantly, underlining the Conservatives’ determination to exploit what they regard as Corbyn’s weaknesses.
  • (8) Similar tensions afflict the US political scene, where anti-immigrant and anti-trade rhetoric have been prominent from the start of the current presidential election round.
  • (9) Samoa will host the third international conference on small island developing states (Sids) from 1 September, and I want leaders from the 193 nations attending to rise above rhetoric and grandstanding, and move closer to binding international agreements on climate change.
  • (10) Politically speaking, that could generate some powerful questions, as families on the cliff-edge begin to digest politicians' rhetoric about hardworking families and ask themselves: "How did we get here?"
  • (11) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (12) This is a chancellor who has produced a budget for hedge fund managers more than for small businesses.” Corbyn made a point of mocking some of the chancellor’s grand rhetoric of recent years.
  • (13) A solid first step would be to both materially and rhetorically support that mechanism,” said Catanzano of the International Rescue Committee.
  • (14) The prime minister is coming under increasing pressure from the heads of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations who have urged Cameron to stop "moralising" and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a G8 summit next month.
  • (15) You can actually create, be a builder and you can make things.” Wozniak’s faith in the power of education is no empty rhetoric.
  • (16) This coercive style of rhetoric is one reason why so many people have stopped listening to what politicians have to say.
  • (17) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
  • (18) So we have futile rhetoric on immigration, but minimal discussion over how to reinvent politics in the digital age.
  • (19) The hawkish rhetoric by Iranians feeds the rhetoric of hawkish Republicans , and the front page of Kayhan” – a conservative Iranian paper – “reads like the ticker on Fox News,” he added.
  • (20) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.

Writing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write
  • (n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
  • (n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
  • (n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.
  • (n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.
  • (n.) An inscription.
  • (n.) Handwriting; chirography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
  • (11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
  • (18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.