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Therefore, the author used Ethos as a persuasive technique. In another case, the author uses Pathos to persuade the reader. The text states, “Many times these students are also the ones with the least

Have you ever watched TV, or watched a commercial and said to your self “hmm this contains ethos, logos and pathos”, yeah me neither. Somehow they fit into our everyday life more than we know. Someone, somewhere will try to convince you of something usually by using the three rhetorical devices logos “or appealing to logic and reasoning”, pathos “appeals to emotion” and lastly ethos “persuasion by appeals to ethics”. (587)

Ethos is used to prove the authors credibility, Pathos is used to elicit feelings and emotions from the audience, and Logos is used

If necessary, someone engaged in an argument must claim authority in the subject they are arguing about by presenting relevant credentials, experience, and achievements. Reflection: This reading was far more useful to me than the corresponding piece about pathos. I have never before seen ethos summarized so succinctly and

In the essay we read, entitled “Why Our Campuses Are Safer Without Concealed Handguns”, we see the author use five main points, as well as using appeals to Ethos Logos and Pathos to help reinforce his view on the topic. The five main reasons that the author feels that college campuses are safer without concealed handguns are introduced to us in the opening of the article, listed as bullet points. The author then goes on to break the article into these separate sections to allow him to go more in depth and explain his position. In this way, he appeals to the reader’s sense of Ethos throughout the entire article by convincing us that he knows what he is taking about. However, the author does not stop here.

The authors capture the attention of the reader through an amalgamate of rhetorical patterns based on logos, ethos and pathos. Through reading these articles it is found that the writers predominantly use logos and pathos to put emphasis on their arguments. Specifically, logos is utilized to appeal to reason by repeatedly using data to uphold the arguments claims, while pathos appeals to the audience’s aptitude for compassion.

Week 2, Discussion 1: Initial Post After considering the information in this 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 on using statistics and a thorough annotated bibliography to support my claim.

Pathos is used in order to link the essay with the reader’s emotions and ethos is used to show the writers moral character. For example, pathos is used when Kozol speaks to a student of a Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel?...I think they’d be relieved.” (Kozol 205) This part of the essay really made me feel sad for this girl who lives in a society where she has grown up feeling like now one cares about her or others of her race.

Ethos, pathos, and logos are ingredients in the recipe for persuasion. For example, I would not have usually watched any video claiming to be academic with cartoon-like characters. I watched the video because I trust our instructor to provide us with credible information, I feel as if our instructor has a vested interest in the academic success of us all, and the video was produced in a manner that made it easy to grasp its concepts. Ethos, pathos, and logos as I understand the terms. Once watching the video and deciding to read further text on the appeals of persuasion, I was able to deduce that these three specific items are used in our everyday lives just about everywhere. In television, ethos is used in my life particularly because I trust

After watching the video and being introduced to the concepts of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, I learned despite living in the age of the internet, social media, and 24x7 access to news, information, and entertainment, the fundamental concept of persuading others has not changed for thousands of years. Since the days of Aristotle, any communication intended to inform, persuade, or elicit a change by its audience must utilize the primary tools of persuasion of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos in order to be effective (Rapp, 2010). Therefore, it is critical that I consider these concepts as I write my essay. To begin with, I will leverage Logos by ensuring the structure and content of my essay follows a logical progression and make sense to my readers.

The first rhetorical device that I used in this essay was a simile when I compared my procrastination cycle to a broken record on a loop. The purpose of this was to show that I was stuck in a loop this year and was becoming a problem and the only to escape this kind of cycle was to stop it from keep going. And as for the next device, it was ethos/logos because I mention that a good portion of seniors seems to catch senioritis which is a hazard to a student finishing off their year strong. This is an example of ethos/logos because this shows that there is a record of students that seem to catch this and that I’m relating to the other seniors that seem to worry of the same obstacle of their last year. A third device that was used in this essay

I decided to just completely focus on the pathos of it instead of logos, and ethos as well. Writing this essay really changed my understanding of rhetoric. Coming into this English class and writing this, I knew nothing about rhetoric. This essay helped me understand more in-depth communication and persuasion, even without a voice. It has got me thinking differently about how to communicate in other ways.

In the introductory chapters of the textbook I recognized some of the basic concepts outlines from having taken a previous speech class while also being introduced to a few new concepts. In the first chapter the passage that cover pathos, ethos and logos I one of the first things that I remembered from my prior speech class. The concept of ethos in particular has caught my attention and has made me reflective upon the qualification I attribute to individuals based on societal teaching that may at times subconsciously infiltrate the way in which I receive people and also the presumptions I may have about them. The value of qualifications beyond those of which we may assume based upon firs impression are especially important in debates. Though

Throughout our daily lives we experience a plethora of rhetorical situations, during which we are encouraged to make rhetorical decisions to help convey a distinct message, or even to further our own opinions. Therefore, whether an individual is discussing politics with a peer, or just casually conversing with a family member, rhetorical devices are often used, knowingly or unknowingly, by a rhetor. This multimedia text serves to show how rhetorical devices are used in relation to a specific everyday situation. The situation that I chose for this project was a meeting that I had with one of my high school volleyball coaches concerning my play time in matches. I chose this rhetorical situation because it accurately reflected how rhetorical devices are applicable to daily life considering that to support my claim that I deserved more playing time, I used a multitude of rhetorical devices to attempt to convince my coach.

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle, being a persuasive novel in nature, is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone, use of periodic sentencing, descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric, Upton Sinclair constructs a moving novel that makes his message, and the reasoning behind it, clear.Sinclair’s use of periodic sentences allows him to cram details and supporting evidence into his sentence before revealing his interpretation of the evidence. Take for example, “Here