Credibility

1937, Young was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Baseball Almanac). Cy Young's tombstone effectively uses both ethos and logos through statistics to convey the message of his credibility in the game of baseball as one of the top pitchers of all time. The tomb does a great job of expressing Cy Young's credibility in the game of baseball through symbols and script. Overall, the tombstone conveys that he was an incredible baseball player. Written on Cy Young's tombstone is a brief history…

The words of a professor are always of interest to any who may hear so. Experience has taught them everything which education neglects, and from such learnings the offer their words to open ears. Brittany Bronson is one such professor, as she advocates her personal predicament in an article titled, “Your Waitress, Your Professor”. Possessing a degree in English only add to the magnitude with which Bronson obtains in the news article. Her advanced knowledge on everything from rhetorical…

taking the business brand in a new direction on the market. When an organization initiates changes, executives and managers must work to maintain the customer’s vision of the company as sales may drop if customers start questioning the company’s credibility or its motivation for change (Jane, 2015). Additionally, Northrop Grumman believes that incremental improvement cannot be mistaken for transformation. Northrop Grumman’s goal is not to be blind in believing that although certain goals are…

Cassidy paper wrote her paper on “Liberal Intolerance” argued against the author topic due to lack of credibility. What I like best about this paper was, she was able to go into detail about the article, and I was able to understand the article without reading it. What parts that were strongly written was Cassidy introduction paragraph. The hook brought me in, and I could she her thesis stated clearly. What in the paper seemed confusing is what areas the author lacked beside creditability. Did…

As a part of rhetorical strategies, ethos is every author’s best friend when it comes to establishing credentials in argumentation works. The purpose of ethos is to build credibility when it comes to persuading audiences to accept an argument that might be opposed to their own beliefs. In the essay “Hiroshima Diary,” Doctor Michihiko Hachiya explained about an atomic bomb that dropped on the city of Hiroshima in 1945. He recalls and described the horrors that followed it through his own…

successful in his efforts to woo some of the wealthiest and most intelligent clients, by gaining the trust of his clients. Successfully, Madoff gained prestige and credibility as he served on charitable boards and held a seat on the government advisory board on stock market regulation. Interestingly, as Madoff’s prestige and credibility continued to grow, he promised a continuous return of 10 to12 percent on investments. As a result, investors were eager to become a member of Madoff’s team and…

HW #4 In the third edition of the book “They Say I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing,” the section “Writing in the Sciences” by Christopher Gillen focuses on how scientific writing is argumentative in the way that they make, support, and criticize claims using specific structures. Scientists follow a specific format in which they create a hypothesis based on existing data, test it out with experiments and talk about its conclusion with the results obtained. According to Gillen, they…

helps the reader believe her, but the lack of emotional appeal can keep the reader from supporting her argument all together. Even with her credibility of being a college student herself and the logical points she makes, Widner fails in trying to push her peers to work harder due to her lack of emotion for her peers and her condescending attitude. Her credibility and evidence is all there, her approach is just wrong in order for her to…

done successfully, and Zakaria’s argument comes across clearly through credibility, logic, and emotions. The ethos appeal is an integral component of “The Rise of the Rest.” Author Fareed Zakaria is proven to be an extremely credible source on the subject of global developments. He earned a PhD in political science at Harvard University and is the editor of Newsweek International (Zakaria 816). He also uses others’ credibility to his advantage by using…

it Works on TV” by Sharon Begley from Opposing Viewpoints, discussed in this essay have comparing and contrasting rhetorical elements. Those rhetorical elements are the use of factual data from crime scenes (logos and pathos), contrasting writer credibility (ethos), and different appeals to certain audiences through formality of the articles. To begin, the first rhetorical element that all three articles use is factual data from crime scenes and actual information from case files, appealing to…