Your Logos, Pathos, and Ethos

Your Logos, Pathos, and Ethos

Your rhetorical strategy must be implicitly understood throughout your paper. In order to gear your research and argument towards rhetoric rhetorical strategies, answer the following questions with regard to your topic.

1. Who are you hoping to convince in your paper?

·        I am hoping to convince the Catholic Church and more specifically the Cardinals that do all of the voting.

2. Why might this audience be hesitant to accept your proposal?

·        Well it is not my place to tell them how to do their job in the first place. Another reason might be that I am a female.

3. What is your plan to overcome this audience’s resistance?

·        My plan is to be upfront with my information and my ideas. World peace is a far stretch but a lot of people look up to and listen to the Pope. So by making one of the African men the Pope, there should be less bias on the color of someone’s skin. Not a lot but a few more than there are now. (We can’t change everyone’s thought.)

4. Why are you qualified to present an argument about this subject?

·        I am not a religious person, but I think that that makes me a better candidate to voice my thoughts. Although I am not a religious person, I understand that faith and hope do bring people together and also shapes the way people think. So for the sake of the world I believe that one of these men would cause a great change, for the better.

5. What characterizes you as a speaker in your proposal? (Think about your self-disclosures, your tone, the way you’ve selected and presented arguments, etc.)

·        Hmmm, well I do not think I sound pushy or bossy. Or at least that is not my intention. I want for the reader to see me as someone with an idea and whether they want to take me up on that idea that is fine, but if not that’s fine too. I just want the reader to see me as someone that cares enough about the world and the people in it to even consider this proposal of mine.

6. Write an outline of your key arguments:

·        Better for humanity

·        Religious people will not be the only ones to benefit

·        Help to decrease (and hopefully diminish) racism

7.  What kind of evidence do you rely on to support these points? (stats, analogies, personal testimony, expert testimony, experiments, etc.)

·        I think I just a little bit of all of them, but I could and should add more to my proposal to make it a stronger paper.

8. How do you know this evidence will sufficiently support your points AND win over your audience?

·        Well both are valid points and if they care about the world and the people in it, they should see the positives, because really there are not any.