Value of documentaries

        Documentaries have a lot of value in terms of rhetorical knowledge and skill. It gives the writer some perspective about something that has happened or is happening in the real world. They are very informational but they still manage to captivate viewers by how interesting they are. Rhetoric itself means the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques and that's exactly what documentaries do.  Documentaries help incorporate emotion into writing especially if you can relate or have a position on what the documentary is about. With other types of film they don't really provide that, especially fictional films since they are obviously not real. These types of films help writers learn to analyze the director of the documentary and the methods he uses to incorporate the effective or persuasive speaking. A documentary is a basis of which a writer can learn the different criteria of other rhetorical work.