Rhetoric itself is a widely common word that usually uses context to describe what the topics rhetoric requires. For example, doctors use a certain rhetoric with their colleagues than they do with their patients. Reason being because the patients may not understand certain words or medical terms the doctors are using. This specific use of rhetoric helps the other person understand the topic of discussion more. The way that Eyman describes it is probably better than most. He says that anytime you see the use of persuasion there is rhetoric. The certain rhetoric that we use when talking to people is to persuade them to understand what you’re trying to convey. When talking to children people often use a different rhetoric to persuade the children to listen. You wouldn’t talk to an adult in the same way when asking them to eat their food.
So in turn this brings us to digital rhetoric. The same way rhetoric is used to persuade and convey process is used here, but in the digital sense. This can mean a number of things in the sense that digital/texts can refer to multiple things. What constitutes a text? Anything you can see/read or sense is one way to describe it. With this we find certain rhetoric to explain it in other terms to further make our point. In simple terms is a certain language used to persuade or translate into more understandable terms. Of course depending on who or what you’re talking to. The chapters on digital rhetoric here, help with the definition.
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