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Assignment #2

1.Authority- Authority is when you have some ideas and thoughts about a certain topic and the reader or listener has to understand what you are saying. You also have to make sure they can trust you so they believe what you say are true.

Emotion- Emotion is when you make a connection with the audiences level so it makes you seem more personable. When you make this connection with the audience they will understand you clearly and make you seem to know more.

Logic- Logic is when you use evidence on the same level of thinking as the audience. This allows the readers to relate to you.

2. The good strategies to use when appealing to the reader’s trust in authority are to have some knowledge and self-confidence. You want to be able to sound like you have some experience with the topic so you seem credible in some sort. This is advantageous to you because when you are confident, this proves to the audience that you believe what you are saying.

3. Some good strategies for appealing to emotion when you’re formulating a reasonable argument is to connect on an emotional level with the audience because it establishes common ground by using sympathy. An example of how this could be advantageous is if I was talking to an audience of widows, I could possible relate to them by explaining the loss of my father.

4. There are potential disadvantages of using a heavy appeal to emotion. The potential disadvantages of using heavy appeal are that it can make the claims and arguments you said earlier easily forgotten. For example, if you are watching a football game and you dislike John Madden and hear him discussing things and you are just so mad at his personality instead of what he is saying, you will miss information that he is saying.

5. The ways that you can use logos to build up a strong argument is that they can improve your claims by using facts and evidence to back up your statements. Logos is extremely important when formulating a reasonable argument because statistics from a credible source is always helpful. It is important because if you are just stating your opinion to an audience and you aren’t using any facts, it makes you seem less knowledgeable and it makes it very hard to relate and believe you.

6.Ethos, pathos, and logos are not separate from each other at all, but are linked together. In many ways they help each other by flowing together to make a sound argument and case. If you are going to give a speech to a person, and all you do is give them facts and information that you believe without connecting to that person it will not be effective at all.

Environmentalism as Religion Run Amok by Michael Crichton.
In this essay by Michael Crichton, uses ethos, pathos, and logos to made valid points and reasoning to his belief. He uses the ethos appeal very much in his essay to back up what he has to say. He uses multiple sources to help him seem more credible and knowledgeable. Michael uses his knowledge that he has possessed from his research to make him seem more confident. He flows through his thoughts and ideas with much understanding on the topic. Michael uses pathos the most throughout his story to appeal to the reader’s sense of emotion. He creates common ground with all the ongoing problems that are consistently in the news today. Then he uses this common ground in his favor because once we start to believe what he is saying, it makes the information more reliable and authoritative. At certain times Crichton did use emotion too much when he was complaining about all the problems, he strayed away from the argument a few times. Crichton used logos to make the readers to make decisions from his reading. He fine-tuned some major points to make them easier to understand and relate to for us. This way, it made me think on my own and determine my own meaning and understanding. Michael Crichton used these three appeals in his essay very well. He touched based on ethos, pathos, and logos throughout his essay to make it flow smoother. By using these three appeals, it makes his essay very persuasive and understanding.

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