Ms. Chastain
Russel Hanson
English 104, Blog Assignment #2
February 10, 2011
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Ethos seems to easy, and pathos doesn’t seem very deep. Logos it is! I don’t have a topic selected yet because I just started looking into this assignment. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do though. I am going to find a story, argument, or presentation, and destroy it. I have always been very good at looking at the “other side” of things. Whether I agree or disagree with a topic, I will bring up the possible arguments to it, whether it is to prove the topic, or to make the writer/presenter wish they had never created it. I am going to find something, hang it up on a hay bale, and unload an entire magazine into it. These are all metaphors obviously, I am not some psycho just talking about weird stuff, but I have your attention now! I am using the “shoot holes in your story” method. I will demonstrate logos by showing my audience how a writer or presenter was overlooking facts, statistics, and details.I have a few ideas for what specifically I will use, however I have to do more research on them because I don’t want to be the one that seems ignorant in the end! Please let me know if this seems within the acceptable means for this writing assignment!
Hi Russel,
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult for me to dispense advice since you haven't chosen a topic yet. I like that you wish you analyze a text that employs logos. Many of your peers will select pathos, because it seems like the easy thing to do. Keep in mind though that whichever text you choose, you aren't necessarily "ripping it to shreds." For instance, if you wished to examine a Christian organization that conducts a study on abortion and the affects it may have on fetuses or unborn children, what you can examine is the logos that it employs. Meaning that you will examine the language the Christian organization uses to describe the fetuses and abortion. You would examine their research and how they carried it out. Also look at how their findings may be skewed because they are a Christian organization.
Do you get the idea?
Ms. C