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)