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    The blog, “Unleashed” utilizes the artistic appeal of ethos. Ethos is the credibility of the speaker. The writer tells about personal experiences she has had with the topic. She explains to readers about the experiences she has had with animals who were rescued from hurricane Katrina. This makes the writer seem more credible because she has had experience with animals who have been in terrible living situations. So she knows how animals adjust after such encounters. The writer's character seems

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    Ethos Pathos Logos

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    Throughout the debates, many speakers from all age and profession make a strong point and indeed produce a vivid reaction from the audience. Predominantly, the speakers use ‘pathos.’ The speakers choose this strategy because the incident involves the loss of people, especially children, so every viewer is going to be moved. Indeed using ‘pathos’ is effective in this debate since the intended audience is close to the victims. The speakers demonstrate compassion and empathy in their speech. Senator

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    triangle includes the elements of ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is proving the speaker’s credibility, logos uses logic, and emotion is labeled as pathos. By using these strategies in writing, authors are able to achieve their purpose. After Princess Diana died in a car crash, many speakers took different

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    Keyword Essay Ethos: Ethos means to convince the audience by someone’s action rather than expressing the idea. It is easier to convince audience when you have background knowledge of the topic i.e. speaker is credible. Example if a say I am an engineer and I have worked for more than 20 years in the field of networking. It will be easier for me to convince you for setting up the network in your workplace building. Also ethos defined as the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying

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    week’s instructor guidance and readings, I understand ethos, pathos, and logos to be a way we communicate with others by appealing to them in different ways. For example in my research paper I am trying to persuade my audience into believing that that it is best for police officers and other law enforcement personal to wear body cameras at all times while assisting or responding to any type of call. For my specific argument I plan on using ethos by appealing to the credibility of my paper. I anticipate

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    I find logos from the text, it is in the beginning of the text. The author talks about how many books that her writes and it also has specific years and name on the text. In my opinion, the most obvious example of the ethos is the sentences that the author’s writing, because the author is the professional person in the writing area, so that I think she has the power to let reader believes what she said and what she think. There also have some instances to firm the main idea. In the third paragraph

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    Ethos Pathos Logos

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    This paper analyzes the types, forms, and effectiveness of the author's use of pathos to evoke emotion from their audience to persuade them to support the purpose of their message. Defined in the course pack as "using emotion to persuade" (Heasley et al. 128) pathos is a technique rhetorists use to garner an emotion response from their audience through one of four methods. These five methods are word choice, vivid examples, personal experience, scare tactics and sensory details; authors can employ

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    After considering the information in this week’s instructor guidance and readings, I understand ethos, pathos, and logos to be... Ethos: is used in an argument when the writer would like to appeal to their audience’s ethics. If a reader can see the credibility in the writer’s opinion they are likely to believe their argument. Pathos: is used in an argument when the writer would like to appeal to their audience’s emotion. Pathos is often used to evoke an emotional response from the audience. Logos:

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    While I had previously heard of Ethos, Pathos and Logos, I didn’t have a clear understanding of the effect each could have to an audience. Each rhetorical appeal can be useful when persuading an audience, but the most effective use of each would be pathos. Think about a time when you believe something to be true, you just felt it and when presented with actual evidenced that your beliefs were incorrect it didn’t sway your way of thinking. How many times have you seen a headline about a crime of

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    Ethos, logos, and pathos are Aristotelian models of persuasion in writing. They are mainly used in writing in order to prove a point to an audience. These can be found in many forms of media: television, radio, and newspaper articles, for example. Ethos is used to establish moral character of the speaker, logos is used to present a sound argument to an audience with facts and figures, and pathos is used to persuade an audience with high emotions. Pathos helps reduce an audience’s ability to

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