September 29, 2008

Response to Melisa Dawson's Rhetoric

I enjoy Melisa's direct approach to writing. I think she understands and implements the strategies we are learning. Her posts are very inviting and easy to read. The rhetoric post stuck with me because we used similar examples for the pathos form of rhetoric. I think those television commercials of starving children that need the viewer to send money and save them is a classic example of rhetoric in the pathos form. Sara also chose this type of commercial as an example of pathos. Three in a class of less than 30 shows more than 10% pick this particular commercial as the most prominent use of emotion to persuade based on the fact it is the example chosen to present, so it must fit the category. Of course, this last sentence is oozing with logos.