A Rhetorical Analysis Of Aristotle's Three Appeals

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I started to appreciate how Aristotle’s Three Appeals are working as I was analyzing my reading selection. I believe that this exercise is the cornerstone for my project #1essay since I will base my analysis of the writer’s overall effectiveness on what I have learned and completed in this assignment. To write the rhetorical analysis in my project #1 essay, I will need to utilize Aristotle’s three appeals in addition to the writer’s purpose and intended audience to be able to evaluate whether his writing is effective or not.
I would like to note that when I examined the writer’s logical consistency, I instantly saw how determining the function and purpose of each paragraph in my previous assignment has made me engage into reading critically

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