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Category: English Composition
Date Submitted: 06/13/2011 11:23 AM
1)Authority or ethos is the amount of confidence or hope the listener has toward the arguer. Emotion or pathos is the exercise in which the arguer presents a sentimental side to the argument in an attempt to touch the soft side of the audience. Logic or logos is the skill of connecting the ideas presented in your argument.
2)A good strategy is to offer opposite mentalities and discredit them with argumentative points to strengthen your argument. Also, after you have done research you more easily sound confident. A way to sound of confident would be not to use phrases like “I think” or “In my opinion”. It is advantageous for you to be a seen as an authority to reader because the reader is more likely to accept and accept your claims.
3)A good strategy for appealing to emotion would be to use ample amount of imagery in your writing to allow the audience to connect within themselves. Another good strategy is to tell an audience a story of an emotional personal experience and use that as support for a claim. A hypothetical situation could be showing images of animal cruelty to support an argument in favor of animal rights.
4)Yes there are potential disadvantages with using heavy appeal of emotion because something the emotion can be so strong that people miss that point of the argument. Also, emotion can be so graphic that people can be shocked enough to miss the point. An example could be showing graphic images of dead animals and shocking the audience enough to distract them from your point.
5)A way you can build a strong argument using logos would be to connect your claim to support and supporting your support with evidence such as examples in history or personal experience. It is very important to use logos for a reasonable argument because your audience wouldn’t view your opinion as a valued opinion, and without that you don’t have an audience.
6)I think that ethos, logos, and pathos are interconnected and interdependent on each other in an argument....