Thursday, December 25, 2008

Tree of Rhetoric

TREE OF RHETORIC
LOGOS (LOGICAL)CAUSE/EFFECT:>If we start school late,students will learn more.DEDUCTIVE REASONING: Reasons from principles.INDUCTIVE REASONING: Reasons from experience.STATISTICS: EXAMPLE > 3% OUT OF 10% OF WOMEN ADOPTING BIRTH CONTROL.CONTRADICTIONS: Finding logical holes in the opposite argument.>EXAMPLE: "People who are against later school times say that early start allow students more time to study,but whats stopping them from studying in the morning?"PATHOS (EMOTIONAL)>The use of emotional arguments to persuade and convince.>Appeals to negative emotions,fears,discrimination,revenge.ETHOS (CREDIBILITY)>Persuading by convincing the audience that the speaker is worth listening to.

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