Grading System Ethos Pathos Logos

This paper analyzes the types, forms, and effectiveness of the author's use of pathos to evoke emotion from their audience to persuade them to support the purpose of their message. Defined in the course pack as "using emotion to persuade" (Heasley et al. 128) pathos is a technique rhetorists use to garner an emotion response from their audience through one of four methods. These five methods are word choice, vivid examples, personal experience, scare tactics and sensory details; authors can employ these methods individually or in conjunction with one another to invoke a pathetic response from their audience.

Rhetorical analysis of 7-Up ad 1957 “Youngest Customers in the Business” reads an ad from the Ladies’ Home Journal magazine, published in 1955. Even though the headline might be a bit odd, a person might consider the context and understand why the ad was believable. The 1950s were known to use little kids in print ads. In the ad, 7-Up appeals to reader’s emotions, especially mothers would pause to see what the baby was drinking and if it could benefit them. The advertisement utilizes the three rhetorical appeals of pathos, logos, and ethos through its image and implied meanings, through this, the image is able to convey a vivid sense of nutritional value from drinking a 7-Up.

Rhetoric is defined as the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. It is used to persuade an audience. According to Michael Austin in Reading the World: Ideas That Matter (661,664), Aristotle has three elements to persuasion: ethos, pathos and logos. Ethos is not just appealing to ethics, but it is establishing the speaker’s credibility and character. Pathos is an appeal to emotion to persuade an audience of something. Logos is an appeal to logic with things like facts and research. Any speaker that wants to persuade an audience to believe something should have an equal amount of all three elements. In the three videos, the speakers use

Ethos or “classical” as it is also sometimes referred to as and pathos or “romantic” as it is also sometimes referred to as. Ethos and pathos are considered prime examples of the way contrast was used to bring out the hidden meaning behind the musical piece, art, and literature. Ethos contains the characteristics of rational, balance, clarity, and restraint. Pathos contains the characteristics of emotion, motion, passion, and instinct.

Would you consider yourself as a grade junkie? Do you always strive for an A and take nothing less? In his essay “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System,” Jerry Farber argues that the grading system is not a good way of evaluating students academically. He believes that with the grading system the way it is, students’ do not try to learn; they only push towards getting a good letter grade. Though some may disagree, Farber's view on the grading system is true.

Three years ago this coop was originally created to offer a source of inspiration, encouragement, challenge, and socialization for our children and teens at a lower and more affordable cost to the parents. We are a not-for-profit group which means our teachers, director, and volunteering parents are not paid a salary, they graciously DONATE their time to offer enrichment into our children’s and our teen’s lives.

Kathleen Cleveland compares each child to a mosaic “created from the many ‘pieces’ of how he is, how he learns, and what he need in order to succeed in [education].” (p. 17) The most effective grading practices, according to those in favor of no-zero policies, provide accurate, specific and timely feedback designed to improve student performance therefore an educator should do everything possible to ensure that all students learn the academic criteria of their curriculum. Selby and Murphy argue that “low grades prompt students to withdraw from learning. To protect their self-images, many students regard the low grade as irrelevant or meaningless.” (p. 92) and the more students are led to focus on how well they’re doing, the less engaged they

Of all the problems we have in our education system, grading is the most misunderstood. Alfie Kohn reinforces the idea that grades have a negative impact on students,in his essay from “Degrading to De-grading”, by stating that grades encourage students to take the “easy way”, by taking the least challenging courses. Another point Kohn makes is that students’ learning is negatively affected by grades because the students only recite the information for the test. After the teachers test the information the students just “learned”, the information becomes irrelevant to the student.The students quickly forgot the information and never really learn it. Not only do grades harm the student, but also the teacher. Grades harm

People only learn things when they want to know more about it, or if it entertains them. Do you find this statement to be true? While sitting in a lecture that you don’t care about do you find yourself doodling or staring off daydreaming or are you actually listening and learning? Jerry Farber is the author of the article “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System”. In the article Farber argued for the current grading system to be removed. His thought is to introduce and replace it with a “Credit system” the credit system would change the way people look at the work ethic of a student (387).

The class reflection/review discussion this week is regarding what benefits might letter grades offer over pass/fail grading systems? A grading system performs many functions and has many purposes for instance it supplies information regarding a student’s academic progress, reports which contain a student’s overall progress can provide motivation for students, and they can also be used as a guidance tool to evaluate weakness and strengths regarding a student’s performance.

Oakley came running into the room where her parents sat. "I got all A's!" She proclaimed with an air of success around her. "I barely even studied for anything. Guess I am really smart isn't I?" Her parents smiled at each other with pride glimmering in their eyes. As Oakley strutted about the house she felt accomplished, and that she could do anything. This is the idea that schools all over the United States try to portray. In today's society, the educational system has lost its balance. Although, it depends on where you live, what type of school you go to, and how much you care about your grades the educational system has lowered their standards altogether. Lowering standards sets students up for failure, does not teach students respect or desire for good grades, and it does not teach work ethic or diligence.

“It emphasizes competition and learning, not learning.” Glenda Potts, author of the article, “A Simple Alternative to Grading”, spoke of the traditional grading system. Potts argues that the current ABCDF grading scale is “flawed” and “hard to communicate” because it does not provide a full critique of a student's work in order for them to improve, only a number or letter grade. Because of this, it is easy for a student to adopt the mentality that they cannot do any better. Patricia Scriffiny, author of ‘Seven Reasons or Standards Based Grading’ agrees with this opinion, adding that traditional grades have no true meaning, and cannot prove a true analysis of what the student may or may not know.

Alfie Kohn brings attention to this unfortunate truth in his piece From Degrading to De-Grading, where he exposes many of the existing flaws present in the grading system today. He first does this by listing the three primary main effects of grading. The first being, that "grades tend to reduce students ' interest in the learning itself" (Kohn). Secondly he reveals his analysis that "grades tend to reduce students ' preference for challenging tasks"(Kohn). And lastly, Kohn expresses his belief that "grades tend to reduce the quality of students ' thinking"(Kohn). To give Kohn some credit, he does justify his sentiment toward grades by including somewhat brief explanations annotated to each of the aforementioned effects provided by him. The issue with his argument isn’t necessarily that it is factually incorrect, but that the current method of grading is far more effective

Soon they are off to school. School comes along with lots of new experiences, some good, others bad. Among those things there are a few that are arguably unneeded. Grades are slowly making their way to the top of the list. The way we currently measure success in school is through a letter grading system. A is great, B not so much, C and D unacceptable, and F? Forget about it! (Ellis) This is the way we have been grading middle and elementary schools since the late nineteenth century after it had been tested throughout colleges and high schools beginning in the year 1756. A standardized grading option was needed to keep the growing number of schools on track with each other. (Lassahn) Just because this is the only way we have found to measure the growth of children for the past two hundred or so years. That by no means proves it is the best way. The stress and burden it puts on the children outweighs the purpose of grading.

"When Teachers Talk Out of School" by Johnathan Zimmerman uses pathos ethos appeals to convey the article.