Pathos, Logos And Reflection

Reading Over the course of the semester, one of our goals was the improve our reading abilities in a way that chiseled our talents in identifying, analyzing, and evaluating different arguments and select examples of pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos is the use of emotional arguments, logos is the use of logical arguments, and ethos is the use of another person’s credibility when composing an argument.
My First encounter with attempting to analyze a persuasive argument was during the composition of the Rhetorical Situations Blog. While trying to identify the rhetorical differences in their arguments, I was unable to, which was made obvious when my major differences in two arguments were articulated as, “Although Farris and Morrison share similar views, Farris’ language has sarcastic undertones while criticizing the ANWR proposal while Morrison’s has urgent and serious undertones.” I focused more on analyzing the tones used in their writing than the actual differences in their arguments or rhetorical elements they employed.
During Dean Herron’s speech on Ossian Sweet, I was much better able to identify examples of pathos and …show more content…
In my audience report, I mentioned, “An example of ethos occurs near the beginning when I borrow the thought processes and logical applications of Jerry Herron, dean of Wayne State’s Honors College.” This shows that I had a clear plan in mind, because I knew what steps I would be using during my writer to create a persuaded audience. I was clearly monitoring my own writing, because I was writing about my usages of rhetorical situations in my essay as I was completing the assignment. The evaluation of my writing would be the articulation of why I chose a certain argumentative style for a certain point I was attempting to make, in this particular case about how I used ethos to gain the trust of the Filipino Student Society’s