Advice on Writing — it’s not all Good Guff
How to pick the dinkums from the shonks
6 min readDec 31, 2019
In ancient Greece, rhetoric was taught in school. Defined by Wikipedia as “the art of persuasion”, the ability to speak effectively, swaying one’s listeners — such as a jury or a public assembly — was regarded as a crucial life skill. A citizen had to master rhetoric to succeed in life.
