Summary The chapter “Gain the High Ground” describes that there should be a relative or

Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist, argued that there were three ingredients needed to effectively persuade those around you; ethos, pathos, and logos.

The next topic the author offered for an argument is, setting your goals of what you want to gain from your audience. The first and most simple step is to change the audiences mood. If you are able to change their mood, you make them more vulnerable to your argument and more willing to listen to you. The second step winning an argument is, changing the audiences mind and opinion. An example of this from the text is, convincing the light bulb that a replacement is the best way to get some light in the room. You want to promote yourself to them instead of coming off with the impression of a rival. The last and most difficult step to winning an argument is, getting to audience to take action. In order to get the audience to do this, you must be on a more emotional and personal level. As quoted from the text, you not only need to use desire to motivate but you need to convince them that taking this action is not a big deal; something they shouldn’t sweat about. Overall, chapter was very descriptive and informing in distinguishing the difference between an argument and a fight, and how to go about winning these

His only interest is what will solve the issue for the audience. Make the audience believe that you are selfless. While arguing, act as if the conclusion happened upon. The persuader should express that what he is doing for the audience does harm to him. It also helps to show doubt in your own rhetorical ability, become the underdog.

Well-Known writer and author, Jay Heinrichs, in his book, thank-you-for-arguing, describes persuasive decisions, argument tools and how to use them when arguing or persuading your audience. Heinrichs purpose is to teach his audience how to use rhetoric and to teach us to argue without anger instead, be apathetic. He adopts an influential tone in order to reveal to his readers that the world of argument has a better way to persuade with logics.

An argument is a claim supported by reasons and pieces of evidence. Arguments have five primary attributes. Firstly, argumentation is a social process which involves two or more parties responding to one another’s proposal or claim. For the case of a written argument, the writer responds to the content of the essay through a critique process. The responses should not only involve restating the same claims and reasons but rather providing supportive pieces of evidence to the positions taken accordingly. Secondly, the aim of an argument is to make the audience adhere to the written critique. The objective is to influence the audience with the aim of gaining support to

Rhetoric is the art of using language to persuade an audience. Writers and speakers often use rhetoric appeals. Aristotelian Rhetoric appeals are used in arguments to support claims and counter opposing arguments. Rhetoric used four different approaches to capture its audience’s attention: pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos bases its appeal on provoking strong emotion from an audience. Ethos builds its appeal based on good moral character of the writer or speaker and relies on good sense and good will to influence its audience. Logos persuades its audience through the use of deductive and inductive reasoning. The kiaros approach requires a combination of creating and recognizing the right time and right place for making the argument in the

In order to do that we must first come together as one and use only one voice. It is hard to persuade an audience when the rhetors have many different opinions and the subject or issues. For example, what if a group of students start a petition to change the food in the cafeteria? These students would have to come together and figure out how to persuade their student body audience go sign the petition. This might be hard if everyone has a different opinion on what they food they want in the cafeteria. Everyone cannot persuade one audience with different

In using facts, studies and reason to persuade the audience,

For your assignment this week, construct a paper that provides an in-depth analysis of the three parts of persuasion. Address the following points in your paper:

What different persuasive approaches would you use on the following audiences: a boss, a peer, a challenging person, or an open-minded person? Why would your approach

Persuasion is the key to getting the results you want, not only for politicians or lawyers, but for every one of us. In a job interview, you will have to persuade your interviewers why they should hire you over the other candidates. In a classroom presentation you will have to convince your classmates and teacher that what you're saying is worth listening to and that you deserve a good grade on the assignment.

One of the key factors in crafting a persuasive piece of rhetoric is tailoring your message to the specific audience. This information will help you decide what sorts of facts to incorporate into your rhetoric as well as help you determine which means of persuasion would be the most effective to employ. Your evidence. When planning your speech or writing, collect any and every type of evidence you can find. Evidence could be facts, statistics, laws, and individual testimonies. It’s always good to have a nice blend, but remember different audiences are persuaded by different types of evidence. Some people need cold, hard facts and statistics in order to be persuaded. Others find the testimony of peers or a reputable authority to be more convincing. Part of getting to know your audience is figuring out what kinds of evidence they will find most credible and compelling

Gerard A. Hauser covers a plethora of details on how to create a well-made persuasive argument in his book, an Introduction to Rhetorical Theory; however, he covered three specific essentials that are necessary for persuasion: the components logos, pathos and ethos; purposive discourse and rhetorical competence; identification. I will argue for each constituent, respectively, to prove that persuasion cannot thrive without the aforementioned essentials.

In order to effectively convince an audience that a certain claim is true, it is necessary to use both evidence from a variety of sources and different rhetorical devices to make your claim seem valid.

For example, if I think a type of feed is better than another type of feed, I would have to persuade the buyer in why I think that type of feed us better for their animal. I would have to hive proof of why the feed is better for the animals and why the other isn't better for the animal. According to John Cammack, buying a Europe heifer (a cow that hasn't been bred yet) would help the farmers in the long run. John states what he thinks, what the farmer should so and gives solid proof on why the farmer buying a heifer from Europe would help in productivity, the milk yield, in the dairy cattle (Cammack, 2011). Prestaining people into believing what a student might think is going to be hard. This would be the area I have to work on personally because sometimes I don't say what I think is right, but if I do say what I think is right, I don't have enough information, or proof, to back up what I'm saying is