“Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion” made me realize how imperative arguing is to our everyday life. The book has been utilized in schools across the U.S for many years due to many readers, including myself finding Jay Heinrich’s cleverness and passion for rhetoric as an intriguing portal to the world of literature. Heinrichs has even been named “Professor of the Practice of Rhetoric and Oratory” at Middlebury College, and his book is also said to be one of the top ten books assigned at Harvard University. Throughout “Thank You for Arguing” Heinrichs effectively describes and demonstrates the different ways in which argument by character, logic, and emotion can act as powerful tools of persuasion, it is very well shown in chapter 4 and made me recognize how vital rhetoric is for us and our future generations.
In the book Jay Heinrichs teaches us various ways of using rhetoric primarily with persuasive leadership which is one of the main characteristics of ethos. By frequently demonstrating historical and modern day …show more content…
It introduces Logos, Ethos, and Pathos or argument by logic; emotion, and character which are Aristotle’s most powerful tools of persuasion, and they improved the results of my everyday arguments. Heinrichs conveys the concepts by going in depth with each tool and demonstrating how they each work by informing us about his past experiences and referring to Roman orators. He Took out comma splice also teaches a few techniques such as decorum and tactical sympathy and goes more in depth about them in later chapters. I learned that each tool have their own tactical benefits and traits which are the building blocks of agreeability and effective-persuasion. The tools are very effective to use and have truly helped me a lot when i’ve implemented them in real life. I comma splice argue much more effectively now which is why I highly rate this
In the book Jay Heinrichs teaches us various ways of using rhetoric primarily with persuasive leadership which is one of the main characteristics of ethos. By frequently demonstrating historical and modern day …show more content…
It introduces Logos, Ethos, and Pathos or argument by logic; emotion, and character which are Aristotle’s most powerful tools of persuasion, and they improved the results of my everyday arguments. Heinrichs conveys the concepts by going in depth with each tool and demonstrating how they each work by informing us about his past experiences and referring to Roman orators. He Took out comma splice also teaches a few techniques such as decorum and tactical sympathy and goes more in depth about them in later chapters. I learned that each tool have their own tactical benefits and traits which are the building blocks of agreeability and effective-persuasion. The tools are very effective to use and have truly helped me a lot when i’ve implemented them in real life. I comma splice argue much more effectively now which is why I highly rate this