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Attention encompasses controlled distraction carefully directed towards a particular goal. 7 Munsterberg’s depiction of how to capture the pupil’s attention remains influential within the contemporary rhetoric of e-education. Goffman’s analysis is focused in part on the sorts of special, rhetorical effects that speakers can use to draw an audience in, and he considers as well that audience members communicate constantly with one another, through, for instance, smiles or unsettled glances between two people, the shifting in chairs that takes place when an audience collectively expects