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Dear Preston,
After
reading your article “You Snooze, You Lose,” I discovered that there are a few
ways you can better appeal to your audience using pathos, ethos, and
logos. First off, ethos is how one
appeals from character and is designed to show the author’s credibility (205). To
establish ethos, you must show that you have good judgment, understand what you
are talking about, and be knowledgeable about your topic (208). To improve your ethos, you need to
prove that you are more knowledge able about the topic of the positives in
waking up early. If you went into
more depth about how you have benefited from being an early-riser by providing
specific examples of your experiences or provide an anecdote from a friend’s
experience, then you will appear more knowledgeable to your reader. Further
broadening your knowledge about your topic only enhances your credible
evidence.
Secondly,
pathos drives the appeal to the emotions of your audience (199.) To appeal to pathos, you must consider
your tone, values of the reader, and provide examples that play on audience
emotions (211). Improving pathos
must begin with establishing who your audience is, in other words, by whom your
paper is primarily being read. Once the audience is chosen, applying pathos
becomes easy. For example, your
article has a motivational aura to it, so perhaps your audience values a good
motivating story or speech. Moreover, you can play on the audience’s emotions
more by providing vivid details that give a sensory feel to the reader.
Finally,
logos deal with the logic and reason behind your argument. Creating strong logos requires stating
your premises, using credible evidence, and then declaring a conclusion. Logos is where your paper can improve
the most. Since hardly any
information is given about yourself, job, or background, it is hard to
determine your credibility as a writer. The examples you give about yourself
are hard to consider factual if we do not even know your last name or what you
do for a living. Moreover, evidence from outside sources is needed to further
strengthen your argument. The examples
you provide are adequate but more evidence is needed back up what you
saying. Therefore, your logos can
be improved.
Sincerely,
Gina Richardella
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