Com115 week 5
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Carly Hribar
COM115
7-21-2023
Part 1
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Describe Ethos, Logos, and Pathos and explain why these elements are important to presenting a successful persuasive argument.
Ethos is a component of a speaker’s character that will determine if the audience listens and accept the message given. Elements of a speaker’s Ethos include goodwill, integrity, competence, and dynamism. This is important because it reinforces that the speaker is maintaining the responsibility they have to the message, the listener, and themselves. Logos is the practice of appealing to the listener's sense of logic or reason to persuade them. This is done using things like scientific research or statistics to back their message. This is important to show credibility and also to reinforce the conclusion the speaker is trying to come to. Pathos is the tactic of using appeals to the audience's emotions in persuasive speaking. Appealing to someone’s negative emotions is effective because people will try to avoid feeling those negative emotions. Getting the audience to “feel” why they should do something is quite effective. Part 2
For my part two I have decided to use the argument, “Should Gay Marriage Be Legal,” from the website ProCon.org. While the pros side of the argument uses ethos like credibility and integrity, explaining that it would be discriminatory to exclude same-sex couples from the right to marriage, the cons side of the argument uses fallacies such as bandwagon or peer pressure. Using quotes from politicians, or church leaders. The cons side of the argument appeals to tradition in many cases, citing that it has always been one man and one woman, but that in it itself is a false argument. There is research on the pros side that shows before widespread religion, marriage was not only one man and one woman but became that way
due to religious constrictions. I see a lot of evidence-based facts on the pros side whereas on the cons side it is a lot of fear-mongering and as I said appealing to tradition and religion. This argument has all elements of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos and you can see that from the information above. Those are just some of the examples. If a speaker were trying to persuade one way or the other they would indeed have to convince them, seeing as this is an argument that has one single outcome. Either it is legal or it won’t be. Either people believe that it should be legal or they believe it shouldn’t. There isn’t any room for in the middle here.
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