Editing Elocution (section)

== Modern elocution ==
Jason Munsell, a communications and speech professor, theorizes that part of elocution is strategic movement and visuals. This is suggested due to a major portion of communication occurring digitally.<ref name="munsell2011" /> In his journal article from 2011, he wrote that the writings of elocution during the mid-nineteenth century aided women in becoming rhetorically empowered.<ref name="munsell2011">{{Cite journal|last=Munsell|first=Jason|date=13 Jan 2011|title=Teaching Elocution in the 21-Century Communication Classroom |journal=[[Communication Teacher]]|volume=25|pages=16–24|doi=10.1080/17404622.2010.527999 |s2cid=143543010}}</ref> Munsell, when examining a bulletin from the time period, makes an argument that elocution may have been the beginning of the rhetoric concept of [[Literary theory]], "The bulletin also explained that the function of elocution was to discover possible meanings of a reading, to learn how to express those meanings, then to discover the intended purpose."<ref name="munsell2011" />