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Review of Rhetorical Appeals
Practice Analysis
Major Composing Project: Rhetorical Analysis
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HOMEWORK:
Read “Backpacks and Briefcases”
(linked on homepage of course website)
Review pg
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2. the appeal to credibility
In his Rhetoric, Aristotle determined that speakers and writers draw on three general categories of appeals:
Logos
the appeal to reason
Pathos
the appeal to emotion
Ethos
the appeal to credibility
One way to analyze an argument is to examine where/how the author utilizes the appeals and determine the author’s effectiveness in using them.

3. Watch out for unsupported claims or suspect evidence!
Logos
When you consider appeals to logos, ask yourself if the author has articulated clear and reasonable major claims and supported them with appropriate evidence.
Logical appeals include firsthand evidence:
observations, interviews, surveys and questionnaires, experiments, personal experience
Logical appeals also include secondhand evidence:
publications (print or online)
Watch out for unsupported claims or suspect evidence!

4. Watch out for emotion overpowering reason!
Pathos
When you consider appeals to pathos, you need to identify the strategies that the author has employed to appeal to readers emotions, values, beliefs, and interests.
Pathetic appeals include:
showing sympathy for or gaining sympathy from the audience, inciting anger or frustration, relying on loyalty, “pulling at heartstrings”
To achieve these effects, you may include:
stories or dramatic examples
Watch out for emotion overpowering reason!

5. Watch out for mudslinging or false authority!
Ethos
When you consider appeals to ethos, examine how the author presents himself or herself.
Ethical appeals include:
using “insider” language, third party endorsements, bragging about experience or credentials, acting for the greater good, showing humility
Watch out for mudslinging or false authority!
For more discussion of how Logos, Pathos, and Ethos are used in arguments, see pg. 123 (AW)
For more discussion of fallacies, see pg (AW)

6. GROUPS Determine who will be the: Reader(s) Recorder Reporter Laura
Troy
Kellan
Isaac
Maleah
Matt
Wahab
Gabriel
Hannah
Salomon
August
Brandt
Xavier
Isaiah
Scott
Zachariah
Bradley
Determine who will be the:
Reader(s)
reads the article to the group
Recorder
recorders the group’s responses
Reporter
reports back to the class

7. READER(S) + RECORDER + REPORTER:
1 – Review Amitai Etzinoni’s “The Limits of Privacy” on pg
2 – As a group, consider the different parts of the rhetorical situation:
Who is the audience? How/why did you come to that conclusion?
What can you learn about the author? What qualifications does he have to write about this topic? Why do you think he wrote the essay?
Where might the audience come in contact with this essay?
3 – As a group, determine where/how the 3 appeals appear in the essay:
Does the author use all 3 appeals?
Which of the 3 appeals is utilized more heavily?
Which of the 3 appeals is not utilized as much as the others?
4 – Be prepared to share with the class.

8. Major Composing Project: Rhetorical Analysis
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