Homework 2

          In my English 101 class our last essay was an argumentative research paper. This paper was to help us use ethos, pathos, and logos so we would be prepared for English 102. My topic was funding for fine arts programs in schools. I used a lot of pathos appeals because you have to find like a soft spot in the reader. I used examples of children with no art teacher and just their homeroom teacher who maybe did not know how to draw and how horrible their projects were. Who wants to see a child sad because their art project isn’t as good as someone else’s: nobody? In the ethos category I had interviewed some teachers that do not have art or music teachers in there school. They stated how hard it was to incorporate it into the daily schedule and about the cost of supplies and that sometimes it had to come out of their pocket without any reimbursement. I also put in information of an art teacher’s salary and showed what they could do with the money since they are not going to pay someone else to do that job. Logos was kind of easy for this essay because it is an argumentative essay so everything I say has to have logic behind it or who is going to believe me. If an essay does not flow most people will not listen. I think this essay really helped me get an understanding of ethos, pathos, and logos since I had not been introduced to it in high school.