question:how do we persuade?
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Persuade is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence person’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. We always have to persuade someone for do something we like since when we were small. We persuade parents and teacher for go out with friends and get more time of assignment. When you use persuasion skill, ethos, pathos and logos are indispensable. And they’re will help your persuasion.
Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a mean of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. If we believe that speaker has good mind, experience, consideration of others, and good moral character, we are inclined to believe what that speaker says. That means if you want to persuade someone, you should have reliability and certain experience. If you are the boy who appears for "Wolf and the shepherd" of Aesop story, no one would lend own ears for heard your persuasion.
Pathos means persuading by appealing to the reader’s emotions. Emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions. Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument. Therefore if you utilize pathos well , your audience will feel the same emotions that you do.
Last one is logos. Logos means persuading by the use of reasoning. Pathos appeals to the audience’s emotions, feelings, values, morals or beliefs. This is an element that can not be removed at the time of persuasion. Because preconceptions are not easily pushed aside. Therefore, if your presentation is hard to follow, or if your arguments are fairly weak, your audience will find it easy to dismiss your ideas. That’s why If you want to change your parents and teacher’s mind, you always have to say the reason.
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” (Zig Ziglar) Persuasion is the most important skill you can develop. Because without it, your ideas won’t get traction. Without influence, you won’t get the resources or support you need. And without influence, you won’t be able to communicate your unique value to the world.
Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a mean of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. If we believe that speaker has good mind, experience, consideration of others, and good moral character, we are inclined to believe what that speaker says. That means if you want to persuade someone, you should have reliability and certain experience. If you are the boy who appears for "Wolf and the shepherd" of Aesop story, no one would lend own ears for heard your persuasion.
Pathos means persuading by appealing to the reader’s emotions. Emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions. Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument. Therefore if you utilize pathos well , your audience will feel the same emotions that you do.
Last one is logos. Logos means persuading by the use of reasoning. Pathos appeals to the audience’s emotions, feelings, values, morals or beliefs. This is an element that can not be removed at the time of persuasion. Because preconceptions are not easily pushed aside. Therefore, if your presentation is hard to follow, or if your arguments are fairly weak, your audience will find it easy to dismiss your ideas. That’s why If you want to change your parents and teacher’s mind, you always have to say the reason.
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” (Zig Ziglar) Persuasion is the most important skill you can develop. Because without it, your ideas won’t get traction. Without influence, you won’t get the resources or support you need. And without influence, you won’t be able to communicate your unique value to the world.
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Persuasion is an umbrella term for influence. Persuasion can alter a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations or behaviors. Ever since we were young, we had to persuade people to fit our own needs. We would persuade teachers and parents to let us go out with our friends, or get more time for an assignment. When we persuade, the use of ethos, pathos, and logos is indispensable.
Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing readers of the character and credibility of the persuader. If we believe that the speaker has a good mind, a good moral character, and is considerate of others, we are more inclined to believe what he has to say. This means that if you want to persuade someone, you should be known to be reliable and experienced. For example, if you resemble the boy in Aesop's fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", who is by the end of the story known for his unreliability, no one will lend their ears to listen to your argument.
Pathos means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions. Emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgements. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions (Cal State LA). Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument. Therefore, if you utilize pathos well, your audience will feel the same emotions that you do, and consequentially accept your arguments.
The last one is logos. Logos means persuasion by the use of reasoning. Whereas pathos appeals to the audience's emotions and feelings, logos uses logic to convince readers of one's argument. As preconceptions are not easily pushed aside, proper reasoning to back up an arguments is necessary. If your presentation is hard to follow, or if your arguments are fairly weak, your audience will find it easy to dismiss your ideas. This is why when you want to change your parents' or teacher's minds, you always clearly state your reasons.
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity"(Goodreads). Persuasion is the most important skill you can develop, because without it, your ideas won't gain traction. Without influence, you won’t get the resources or support you need. And without influence, you won’t be able to communicate your unique value to the world.
Citation:
"A Quote by Zig Ziglar" Goodreads. 23 May 2015. Web. n/a. <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/243565-the-most-important-persuasion-tool-you-have-in-your-entire>
"Ethos, Logos, Pathos". Cal State LA. 23 May 2015. Web. n/a.<http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/3waypers.htm>
Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing readers of the character and credibility of the persuader. If we believe that the speaker has a good mind, a good moral character, and is considerate of others, we are more inclined to believe what he has to say. This means that if you want to persuade someone, you should be known to be reliable and experienced. For example, if you resemble the boy in Aesop's fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", who is by the end of the story known for his unreliability, no one will lend their ears to listen to your argument.
Pathos means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions. Emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgements. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions (Cal State LA). Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument. Therefore, if you utilize pathos well, your audience will feel the same emotions that you do, and consequentially accept your arguments.
The last one is logos. Logos means persuasion by the use of reasoning. Whereas pathos appeals to the audience's emotions and feelings, logos uses logic to convince readers of one's argument. As preconceptions are not easily pushed aside, proper reasoning to back up an arguments is necessary. If your presentation is hard to follow, or if your arguments are fairly weak, your audience will find it easy to dismiss your ideas. This is why when you want to change your parents' or teacher's minds, you always clearly state your reasons.
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity"(Goodreads). Persuasion is the most important skill you can develop, because without it, your ideas won't gain traction. Without influence, you won’t get the resources or support you need. And without influence, you won’t be able to communicate your unique value to the world.
Citation:
"A Quote by Zig Ziglar" Goodreads. 23 May 2015. Web. n/a. <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/243565-the-most-important-persuasion-tool-you-have-in-your-entire>
"Ethos, Logos, Pathos". Cal State LA. 23 May 2015. Web. n/a.<http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/3waypers.htm>
Argumentative Essay
Benjamin Franklin once said,“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. For our current project entitled Learning from Others, actively involving ourselves with a peer’s piece of writing through revision is what enabled us to learn from our peers. To better highlight the exemplary aspects of the original writing piece, revision were made, and through these revisions, we gained perspective as well as a better understanding of concepts explored during this school year.
Exemplary writing techniques that Yuri, whose reflective writing piece I revised, employed, include her use of a clear structural flow with her paragraphs. Although the assignment was to create a short, informal reflective piece, she chose to format her writing in a very organized way that closely resembles the format of a five-paragraph essay. Her first paragraph serves as an introduction, where she clearly states her topic: the importance of persuasion and the significance of ethos, logos and pathos as persuasive techniques. She then divides up her three body paragraphs based on three topics: the three persuasive techniques. In each of her body paragraphs, she provides readers with clear reasoning on why the use of each of the persuasive techniques is crucial. Her arguments on the importance of the techniques are not limited to writing; on the contrary, she provides examples of real-life situations that highlight the importance of influencing other in various ways. One such example is her bringing up a hypothetical situation where we would be wanting to convince our parents or teachers to let us “go out with our friends” or “get more time for an assignment”. She brings this up in her first paragraph to mention a case where persuasion is important, and she mentions this again at the end of her last body paragraph, which helps with tying her arguments back to her main topic as well as drawing a close to her reflective piece.
The revisions I made on Yuri’s reflective piece chiefly attempted to add a more smooth flow to her writing, by means of fixing her grammatical errors. Simple errors with parts of speech, for example, were fixed in an effort to make reading through the piece less wearing. Though her grammatical errors did not hamper the reader’s ability to comprehend her arguments, revisions were made in an attempt to create a nicer flow to her sentences so that the exemplary aspects of her arguments and writing structure could be highlighted. Another improvement I made was delineating more on certain examples brought up in her paragraphs, as well as adding proper citation. For example, I expanded on her reference to the Aesop fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, by adding a parenthetical phrase to describe how the boy was perceived in the fable. This addition helped to clear up the question of exactly how the boy demonstrated a lack of persuasion, which would not have been so obvious to people who the reference evaded. Adding the citation was a minor change, yet it brings to light the importance of following the assignment rubric, as well as underscore the quality of the writing piece, as it incorporates ideas from outside resources.
Reading through Yuri’s reflective piece made me reflect on the importance of having an organized, coherent structural format, as well as the significance of the ability to both identify and use persuasive techniques. These two aspects of writing were a central focus to our class learning this year, and editing her writing helped me reflect on its importance. Moreover, not only did she provide strong arguments on the topic of persuasion; she herself employed the persuasive techniques ethos, pathos, and logos in her writing. To elaborate: she employs ethos when she mentions at the end of her piece that we all possess “unique values” worth sharing with the world; she uses pathos by creating a sense of urgency when she states that without urgency we would be deprived of the chance to express our thoughts to the world; and she employs logos when she provides us with the reasonable example of how we would require persuasive techniques to change the mindsets of our parents and teachers. Identifying these persuasive techniques in itself was a learning experience for me, and would be for future readers also.
Revising Yuri’s reflective piece helped highlight the exemplary aspects of her writing, such as her organized structure and her use of persuasive techniques, as well as help create a learning experience for myself. We tend to take for granted our peers’ works that are easily accessible to us, and learning how to maximize the amount of learning by using them is a very valuable skill. With the opportunity to broaden our learning readily available to us, it is desirable that we take advantage of it so that we may become instructors and pupils of one another.
Exemplary writing techniques that Yuri, whose reflective writing piece I revised, employed, include her use of a clear structural flow with her paragraphs. Although the assignment was to create a short, informal reflective piece, she chose to format her writing in a very organized way that closely resembles the format of a five-paragraph essay. Her first paragraph serves as an introduction, where she clearly states her topic: the importance of persuasion and the significance of ethos, logos and pathos as persuasive techniques. She then divides up her three body paragraphs based on three topics: the three persuasive techniques. In each of her body paragraphs, she provides readers with clear reasoning on why the use of each of the persuasive techniques is crucial. Her arguments on the importance of the techniques are not limited to writing; on the contrary, she provides examples of real-life situations that highlight the importance of influencing other in various ways. One such example is her bringing up a hypothetical situation where we would be wanting to convince our parents or teachers to let us “go out with our friends” or “get more time for an assignment”. She brings this up in her first paragraph to mention a case where persuasion is important, and she mentions this again at the end of her last body paragraph, which helps with tying her arguments back to her main topic as well as drawing a close to her reflective piece.
The revisions I made on Yuri’s reflective piece chiefly attempted to add a more smooth flow to her writing, by means of fixing her grammatical errors. Simple errors with parts of speech, for example, were fixed in an effort to make reading through the piece less wearing. Though her grammatical errors did not hamper the reader’s ability to comprehend her arguments, revisions were made in an attempt to create a nicer flow to her sentences so that the exemplary aspects of her arguments and writing structure could be highlighted. Another improvement I made was delineating more on certain examples brought up in her paragraphs, as well as adding proper citation. For example, I expanded on her reference to the Aesop fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, by adding a parenthetical phrase to describe how the boy was perceived in the fable. This addition helped to clear up the question of exactly how the boy demonstrated a lack of persuasion, which would not have been so obvious to people who the reference evaded. Adding the citation was a minor change, yet it brings to light the importance of following the assignment rubric, as well as underscore the quality of the writing piece, as it incorporates ideas from outside resources.
Reading through Yuri’s reflective piece made me reflect on the importance of having an organized, coherent structural format, as well as the significance of the ability to both identify and use persuasive techniques. These two aspects of writing were a central focus to our class learning this year, and editing her writing helped me reflect on its importance. Moreover, not only did she provide strong arguments on the topic of persuasion; she herself employed the persuasive techniques ethos, pathos, and logos in her writing. To elaborate: she employs ethos when she mentions at the end of her piece that we all possess “unique values” worth sharing with the world; she uses pathos by creating a sense of urgency when she states that without urgency we would be deprived of the chance to express our thoughts to the world; and she employs logos when she provides us with the reasonable example of how we would require persuasive techniques to change the mindsets of our parents and teachers. Identifying these persuasive techniques in itself was a learning experience for me, and would be for future readers also.
Revising Yuri’s reflective piece helped highlight the exemplary aspects of her writing, such as her organized structure and her use of persuasive techniques, as well as help create a learning experience for myself. We tend to take for granted our peers’ works that are easily accessible to us, and learning how to maximize the amount of learning by using them is a very valuable skill. With the opportunity to broaden our learning readily available to us, it is desirable that we take advantage of it so that we may become instructors and pupils of one another.