Modes of persuasion

Poet Aesop once said, “Persuasion is often more effectual than force.” Marketers today rely heavily on the art of persuasion, so much so that they have it narrowed down to a sort of science. For example, how many people have been persuaded to buy a weight loss pill? The commercials are very convincing, promising consumers to lose a crazy amount of weight with their pill, and even showing examples of people who lost a great deal of weight while taking the pill. What the advertisers fail to…

Work for Respect Not Money in “Rethinking Work” By Barry Schwartz Work is not all about money: most people have that mindset that people go to work just for money when that is not the case. It is more than just money people see in work. Author/Professor Barry Schwartz wrote the article “Rethinking Work” Published to New York Times on August 30,2015. Persuading people that work is…

Week 2: Discussion 1 After considering the information in this week’s instructor guidance and readings, I understand ethos, pathos, and logos to be..... as a student of Ashford University I have access to many resources like the scholarly source from ashfords library which gives me the ethos to my argument with creditable and trustworthy information for my readers...The pathos is the audience I need to persuade with the true facts and non-biased opinions on the constructed…

“Sorry I’m late, traffic was crazy!” That excuse has been used by everyone at least once. There are many people who use excuses like that all the time because they have no responsibility for themselves. There are a couple people who never use excuses, those people are vulnerable and accept when they do wrong. The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth has many examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in chapter 2, “Reasons are Bullshit” and makes an effective argument by using Aristotle’s rhetorical…

United States. Not far from its recent birth as a country, Benjamin Baker, a well-rounded man, wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who at the time was the secretary of state, addressing the current state of slavery and his plea against it. The mode of persuasion he used in his argument was the use of guilting Thomas Jefferson by smoothly using several rhetorical strategies. To begin with, the main weapon he used to make his case was using several allusions to guilt Thomas Jefferson. He started…

of the three modes of persuasion. Therefore, Aristotle establishes ethics and rhetoric as inseparable through his analysis of the three modes of persuasion, which establish the place of ethics within the act of persuasion. To persuade someone of your opinion, it is not enough to force your morals upon them. When others disagree with us, we often feel an obligation to convince them of our perspective by any means possible. However, we often fail at utilizing the art of persuasion that…

The question, “Is our future dependent on reading?” is what Neil Gaiman addressed in his persuasive piece that was published on the newspaper website The Guardian. Because of the fact that it is a persuasive article, Gaiman was very adamant in his position on the issue. He claimed that the best method for a successful and literate future is to read to children when they are young so they can form good habits at a young age. In order to most effectively get his message across, Gaiman demonstrated…

Pharinet’s short essay, “Is College for Everyone?” appeared in an AssociatedContent.com blog. She explains that college will not be for every person since some aren’t willing to learn or even cares about learning in college. Student determination towards continuing with college is simply because it has become the norm for today’s society, their parents urge them to, and the many ways on how receive financial aid. There’s a very seldom number of students that continue after high school with…

In his article, “The Pain of Police Killings Can Last For Decades,” Ben Greenberg states that the grief that comes from an unjust police killing can last in the family for generations. His thesis statement is, “But long after the demonstrations end, the streets go quiet and the cameras leave, families of those killed have to find ways to cope with their loss” (Greenberg, 2016, para. 1). The audience for this article is anyone who might be interested or uninformed about unjust police killings.…

Many societies use torture as way of extracting information from people who will not easily give up much needed information. Torture is a topic of controversy in our world and has been for years now. Although torture may work in some instances, studies repeatedly show over and over that it is not effective. Oftentimes, people will say anything and even provide incorrect information to stop the suffering. I have analyzed opinion articles such as Torture is Morally Reprehensible by Kim Petersen…