Blog 12T

3 Elements

-Logos

-Ethos                   -->Appeal to audience

-Pathos

1. Logos - Statistics, real experience, facts, experimental, results, observed (concrete), logic

Evidence/Support objective facts=true 

Danger of overusing: Disengage a reader/boring

2. Pathos - Emotion--> sadness, guilt, humanity, pity, positive, happiness

Danger of overusing: Annoys audience, desensitize 

3. Ethos - Ethics, spirit of right and wrong, (credibility) trustworthy, authority, believable, unbiased, opposition, fairway

Logical Fallacies

- Faulty Reasoning 

- Error in Argument

- Poke Holes in Argument

Examples
1.Either you support the President in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American.

2.That boy scout troop made an old lady’s day by visiting and entertaining her in her nursing home; we should give generously to the boy scouts as a result.

3.Here’s what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.

(http://www.uwec.edu/ranowlan/logical%20fallacies.html)

Blog 12R

In class this week we learned about logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are holes in an arguments that writer's usually miss in their papers. When a writer has a certain position in a paper it's hard to not include a lot of facts and statistics when you're trying to prove yourself. In the essay "Children Need To Play, Not Compete" there was a lot statistics. It''s good to have facts in a position paper but you don't want to bore your reader to death.

We also talked about the terms logos. ethos, and pathos. Logos has to deal with logic. Ethos has to deal with the writer's credibility. Pathos has to deal with an emotional appeal. All three of these terms are needed in a paper to balance it out. You can't have too much emotion because it gets annoying after a while. You want to be credible but you don't want to bore you reader. 

Learning a new term and being reminded of three others was helpful. I have a feeling we will be writing a research paper soon which I'm happy that we touched up in these things.