Rhetorical Analysis Of Let Those Who Ride Decide By Eric Hartman

Ronald Reagan’s speech “A Time for Choosing” was a very effective persuasive speech that may not have gotten Barry Goldwater elected as president, but it did have a profound impact on the American people. This speech more than likely led to Ronald Reagan’s interest in politics and election as President of the United States in 1981. He communicated facts that may not have been known to the American community and additionally brought into perspective invalid statements that were said about Barry Goldwater. Reagan easily connected to his audience and was successful in convincing people to join his side of thinking through various persuasive techniques.

In Lian Dolan’s “Carry Your Own Skis,” she effectively used all three rhetorical appeals to convince the audience that responsibility is necessary to be a part of the things that you enjoy. Through the use of ethos, she established a sense of trust in the reader. Through the use of pathos, she created an emotional sway and implemented a bit of humor. By using logos in an unconventional way, Dolan rationalized her mindset into a simple statement that summarized how the audience should carry themselves. The author used these appeals to persuade the audience that her message was the right one.

In the informational film Race to Nowhere the faults of america's education system and "achievement culture" are displayed in a new and grim light. The films tenatious use of rhetoric aids heavily in the development and communication of the authors claim, that the American acheivment culture is negativly impacting our future as well as our students. The way in which information is presented and by who plays a key role in the succesfull communication of the films purpose.

In the song “Drive by” written by the group Train, published on YouTube on the channel TrainVEVO on February 15, 2012 the author, in this case, the man singing attempts to reach video’s viewers who are mainly millennials as his audience. Throughout the video the author takes the primarily millennial viewer base through his memories and attempts to explain and justify his actions to his viewers as if aware he is being watched, this is noticed throughout the video as he often breaks the fourth wall by looking straight into the camera, and at the end of the video, the singer smiles and looks straight into the camera as if acknowledging the viewer. The author reaches the audience using rhetorical strategies to better explain himself and ultimately convince his audience that he has changed, although in this case, the author fails to support his argument with logos and instead puts more emphasis on the pathos and ethos of his argument.

An argument is a two-sided claim that has facts and evidence to back up and justify each side of the argument. The purpose of any argument is to persuade the opponent and the audience to one side or the other. The goal of the speaker or writer is to use persuasive techniques that end with the audience’s vote. These techniques include pathos, logos, and ethos. Each one of these tactics plays an important role in producing a strong case in a debate or argument. Recently, in this composition class, I have put these techniques to use to create a strong argument with two other classmates. Our debate topic was whether or not the death penalty should continue to be legal in the United States. My team served as the proponents of the argument and tried to use each one of these three main persuasive techniques, pathos, logos, and ethos.

Bernard Roth, a mechanical engineer and a professor at Stanford University, wrote a book called The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life, by using particular personal experiences and student stories he encountered throughout his life to explain with many details that a you are your own enemy and if they want to achieve their goal, they must work hard to reach it. Moreover, Roth reveals credible argument that inspires many readers. In the second chapter of Roth’s book, he addresses that “Reasons are Bullshit” by applying Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle, ethos (credibility appeal), pathos (emotional or imaginative appeal), and logos (reasoning or argumentative appeal) in order to persuade the audience.

To begin with Equality believes his eventual assessment of his sins are wrong. He is too tall and too smart. He feels so absolutely terrible about how he looks. He truly believe he is sinning by looking the way he does. He discovers electricity, he wants to tell the Council of Vocations. He is very scared that he is going to get into a lot of trouble and be banished. Equality wants to be a scholar, but he knows that the Council of Vocations will not allow that. Equality states “we know that we are evil, but there is no will in us and no power to resist it.”(Pg. 18) This statement proves that Equality honestly believes he is evil, terrible, and a horrible sinner.

In Neil Postman’s novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, he argues that rationality in America has become dictated by television. Through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos, Postman demonstrates that his claim is valid and reliable. These are three forms of persuasion that are used to influence others to agree with a particular point of view. Ethos, or ethical appeal, is used to build an author’s image. Ethos establishes a sense of credibility and good character for the author (Henning). Pathos, or emotional appeal, involves engaging “an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions” (Henning). If done correctly, the power of emotions can allow the reader to be swayed to agree with the author. Logos, or logical appeal,

In many papers you will notice different types of persuasion that help the writer to give a reader a better of understanding of the paper. These types of persuasion are called rhetorical appeals. Each appeal has its own ability to give to the writer's paper, ethos is the credibility of the work the writer is using, pathos is appealing to the audience’s emotions, and lastly logos is the logical appeal. When writing a paper a person generally uses at least one rhetorical appeal to persuade their audience.

Next, Suzuki includes a few rhetorical questions. Around the halfway point through her speech, Suzuki brings up a very important people that some countries are so afraid of letting go some of their wealth that they won’t even share goods with the needy, they would rather let them starve and plead. Shortly after stating this in her speech she says, “If a child on the streets who has nothing is willing to share then why are we who have everything still so greedy?” (Suzuki). She already answered that question and she even makes readers think about current situations going around in the world. For example, today, Americans are eating all they want and getting fat whereas people in Africa are starving and dying. The Americans try to help a little

speaker, audience. In their writing (chapter 1) argue that everything can be turned into an argument. They support their claim by first telling about Michelle Obama's tweets about her concern of a kidnapping, by terrorist group Boko Haram, of more than 200 Nigerian girls in 2014. Then by explaining how we make arguments. The author’s purpose is to inform readers about make arguments by using ethos, pathos, and logos.

The first chapter introduced the reader to the art of rhetoric. He describes how rhetoric works through real life examples. He demonstrates ways that rhetoric persuades us like, argument from strength, and seduction. He tells the reader that the sole purpose of arguing is to persuade the audience. He showed that the chief purpose of arguing is to also achieve consensus, a shared faith in a choice.

Rhetorical analysis is a way to break down non-fiction texts by an effective use of words to persuade. The development of the adolescent brain is continuing to mature to a fully developed brain. It is known that teenagers’ decisions can be easily influenced; usually by their peers. Therefore, decisions made as an adolescent differs from the decisions and behavior from an adult. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the article, Can Teenage Defiance Be Manipulated for Good? By New York Times author, Amanda Ripley's, ideas to persuade people how teenagers make wiser choices when they are being encouraged to make positive decisions. In this persuasive article, Ripley uses ethos, logos, and diction in order to explain how teenagers beliefs can be influenced.

Persuasive writing is one of the most common types of writing styles used in the world. It may contain only one or several arguments and offers support for the main claim in order to convince the reader of the writer’s opinion. The primary objective is to change the way the reader on the other end thinks about a specific argumentation or claim. In order to obtain the sought after results, the writer needs to be aware of the audience and context for which rhetorical approach to take. For instance, how the context of the message is written, sometimes is not perceived the same way, particularly when the audience beliefs are on the opposite side. Therefore, by writing a specific

Though the last three months of this course, I have learned a great deal about the art of persuasion and communication. As an engineering’s student, I have not been exposed to much of the material in this course before I started it, but I have learned how often persuasion is used in our daily lives. All ads and commercials used persuasion techniques such as ethos (credibility), logos (argument logic) and pathos (emotional state) and often a mixture of all three. The importance of using persuasion techniques is to target the audience’s attitudes. Attitudes include personal beliefs and are a part of a person’s values. Functions of attitudes are self- identity, ego-defense, value- expression and knowledge. Attitudes persist over time and guide behavior, which is why they are important so important to target when trying to persuade someone. Word usage is important when persuading, public speaking, and when analyzing an audience.