Richie's Rogerian Rhetoric Reading Response (Gotta Love Alliterations)

Rogerian Rhetoric is a way of thinking when you view another's piece of work. Instead of going in and boldly attacking the author or side yourself on the opposite end of the spectrum with the author, you try to meet in the middle and take a more calm collected approach. The article is a good source because there are actually steps and guidelines on how to go about viewing someone's work in a rogerian rhetoric sort of way.

Reading this article during our OpEd unit makes perfect sense because it gives you a different approach to looking at an article. It's almost as if this were done on purpose.... It helps you to create new ideas and form different opinions on a single piece of work rather than form one single idea or stance on it. This form of thinking allows you to be a sort of mediator between two sides and find some middle ground between them.