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The Power of Messages
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Learning Objectives

1.

You should be able to explain and discuss why it is important to pay close, analytic attention to messages in public communication.

2.

You should be able to offer at least three examples (not offered in the textbook) of how we know public messages are vital in human experience.

3.

You should be able to offer at least three examples (including one not offered in the textbook) of how public messages have signaled, or created a substantial cultural controversy.

4.

You should understand the relationship between communication and rhetoric-especially concerning public messages.

5.

You should be able to identify and discuss the differences between a rhetor and a rhetorician.

6.

You should be able to identify and discuss what makes a public message rhetorical.

7.

You should be able to identify and discuss the interrelationships between, and among, the physical world, the social world, and the symbol world.