Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 4 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!
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Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.
1. In editorial or opinion pieces, what are the most useful source to use?
ReplyDelete2. What rhetorical appeals should one use in a research argument essay?
When writing an editorial/ opinion piece, you typically want to find sources that appeal to your side of the argument. This helps you persuade the reader to agree with you and your points. When you are writing an editorial or opinion piece, then you have to include a section called concession to the opposition. This is where you directly recognize the oppositions points and argue for them. This section usually isn't that long because, to the writer, their view on the topic is better than the oppositions. Sometimes the authors of the editorial/ opinion piece, take the less popular opinion and then their concession to the opposition section would be longer than others. The most reliable source I would say would have to be a bi-partisan source that only talks about the topic and mentions both sides of the topic.
DeleteIn an editorial or opinion piece you want to find sources that can help your readers understand the statement you are trying to get across. The key is accuracy, you want to use relevant information so you have a credible argument. While writing an argument essay by using ethos, pathos, and logos you set up a legitimate argument that people will understand and pay attention to. For example even in an advertisement a company is using to get people to buy their product. If they show the nurturing of a child or a baby puppy running happily to its owner the general audience may be more prone to purchasing that product. It gives the audience trust in the product that it will make them feel the same way they are seeing people react in the ad.
Delete1. What would be the best mode/media to persuade someone?
ReplyDelete2. What is the best format to use to persuade someone?
1) The best mode for a persuasive piece would be digital and the medium would be television through a commercial. Using this mode and media a large audience can be reached. Unlike a book or webpage where only certain people will choose to read your persuasive piece only if it aligns with their interests, a commercial can be watched by large masses of people whether or not they care what your topic is about. Although a topic may be irrelevant to a person, if they witness your commercial on tv, and the elements of your genre are effective, then the audience can be persuaded by your work. For example, I am not an animal person but whenever I am watching tv and a commercial for a charity for animal abuse comes on, it successfully persuades me to feel bad for these animals and to do whatever I can to help them. So as long as your persuasive piece successfully employs pathos, uses good style, has a strong argument, and is memorable to your audience then I think that a commercial would be the best mode/media because you would be able to reach a larger and more diverse audience.
Delete2. Depending on what it is the author is trying to get across to the audience is when to decide the best formatting to persuade someone. If one was trying to write a persuasive paper about global warming, he might try to incorporate pictures of melting glaciers or animals in the Arctic losing their homes to connect let them visualize what he is trying to say in his paper. Three appeals, logos ethos and pathos are very important aspects to think about so the audience knows to trust the author and that the information is viable, knowing the audience can relate to the author and connecting with them emotionally. With this is mind the author would do a great job persuading his audience.
Delete1) How can collages be used to persuade people?
ReplyDelete2) What kind of writing style is best fit for editorials?
1.Collages can be used to persuade people by catching their eyes. Collages play on ethos, logos, and pathos. The ethos of collages by showing culture or era. If its for a study abroad program, showing the different culture would captivate viewers making them want to look at the pictures or brochure. Collages could play more into ethos if the creator played beliefs or aspirations that would interest a group of people. Logos would appeal to logic. Logos also plays a major role in persuading an audience by a reason. Pathos appeals to peoples emotion, if you show kids who are in need of help or clothes by collages of how they are living in their town, it appeal to people to look at the pictures and maybe donate or want to go on a mission trip. Pathos is also away to convince the audience of an argument by getting their emotional response. If you showed an audience a collage of pictures of a politician doing something horrible, you would probably get and angry emotion out of people which would persuade them to dislike that politician.
ReplyDelete1. How can we use emotion to catch the reader's attention?
ReplyDelete2. Does adding visuals help persuade the audience even more?
Writers can use emotion to catch people's attention if we word things in a way that makes people react to the things we say. As writers we can use emotion to make people think about our point of view in a different light. We can also use emotion to persuade people to believe what we are saying is true. We can also pull on people's heart strings by describing a really sad story that talks about hardships someone has gone through in their life. When people read sad stories, it can catch their attention and then we can use that attention to talk about our point of view further. Emotion can also be used to catch a reader's attention if we offend them in some way. It may sound harsh, but offending people is one really good way to catch someone's attention and keep it. At least, in my experience, that is what I have found. Emotion can be used in so many ways to catch the attention of our readers or our audience.
Delete1. How does doing research about a source help one persuade his/her audience?
ReplyDelete2. How do advertisements use rhetorical appeals to persuade their audience?
1. How can one use ethos, logos, and pathos in a research paper and still make it credible?
ReplyDelete2. How are editorials different from a persuasive paper?