Monday, March 18, 2013

My logos, ethos, and pathos


Your Logos, Pathos, and Ethos

 

Your rhetorical strategy must be implicitly understood throughout your paper. In order to gear your research and argument towards rhetoric rhetorical strategies, answer the following questions with regard to your topic.

 

 

1. Who are you hoping to convince in your paper?

 

I am trying to convince the Illinois School Board

 

 

2. Why might this audience be hesitant to accept your proposal?

 

The audience might be hesitant because of budget cut that they are supposed to be doing to save the state money

 

 

3. What is your plan to overcome this audience’s resistance?

 

My plan is to provide stories that target there sympathy for children

 

 

4. Why are you qualified to present an argument about this subject?

 

I am qualified because going through grade school I had a fine arts program and now that my brother is in grade school he does not have the same great programs I did at his age

 

 

5. What characterizes you as a speaker in your proposal? (Think about your self-disclosures, your tone, the way you’ve selected and presented arguments, etc.)

 

I think since I used personal examples in my proposal it makes my character show

 

 

6. Write an outline of your key arguments:

 

-       Lack of funding

-       Lack of proper teaching background

-       Lack of supplies

-       College requirements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.  What kind of evidence do you rely on to support these points? (stats, analogies, personal testimony, expert testimony, experiments, etc.)

 

-       Stats

-       Personal and expert testimonies

-       Facts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. How do you know this evidence will sufficiently support your points AND win over your audience?

 

 

 

My evidence is similar to what would be brought up in a board meeting by community members and also by teachers. I think it would eventually win over my audience because nobody wants to see a child fail at their dream because of something someone else could have done.

 

 

 

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