Credibility: The degree to which an audience trusts a writer based on expertise, fairness, or character.
How to apply it: Explain how a writer builds or undermines credibility through evidence selection and acknowledgment of complexity.
Course: AP English Language · Unit: Rhetorical Analysis
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