Logos is used to persuade someone by using facts. In other words Logos is where you give an example of something and you reason with the audience as to why that statement is true or false with evidence to back it up. An example of this "Harry Potter - "You've made a mistake I can't be a wizard. I mean I'm just Harry, just Harry." "Hagrid - " Well, just Harry, did you ever make anything happen? Anything you couldn't explain, when you were angry or scared?" - Harry potter
Ethos is used in a text to convince the audience. Another way to put it is that Ethos is used to convince people by having someone of authority or a text tell you about something that shows truth and has credibility to what it's telling you. The person of authority could be a CEO or a Celebrity. An example of this " I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience. When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My Partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses. So some of us had this idea that if we really believed our advice was helping companies, we should invest in companies. We should bet on ourselves and on our advice. So we started a new business called Bain Capital... That business we started with 10 people had now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that Frist Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised" - Mitt Romney''s Acceptance speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
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What are we doing? - Learning how to write good Persuasive Formal Writing.
Why are we doing it? - We are learning how to write like this so we can one day right persuasive things that could change someone's mind about something.
What questions do I have? - Not much really.
Hey Ruby.
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog post. I like how you have desribed things in a way that makes it easy to understand. For next time I think you could shorten the ethos example. I personaly feel like you don't have to have all of what you have. But it is still good.
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Salutations Ruby-san!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through this blogpost, it seems that you have really understood the meaning of these three words that we currently studying in our class. I like how your example included words that are capitalised to make more emphasized meaning. In your "why are we doing it" in the sentenceWe are learning how to write like this so we can one day (right) persuasive things that could change someone's mind about something. You might need to include what things and something is. Also, I think you meant to write the word "write" in exchange for right. Overall, I think this is a great piece of text. Good job!
Hello Reige
DeleteThank you for the feedback, I'll make sure to put what you said into consideration.
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Hi Ruby
ReplyDeleteThis blog post was a good read. I like the way you used a variety of examples- it gave the post a lot of variety and made it more interesting to read. Harry Potter is one of my favourite movies so I really liked seeing you use it as an example. Maybe next time you could explain how the author of each example used the modes of persuasian to appeal to their audience, rather than just showing the example.
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ReplyDeleteHello Ruby
ReplyDeleteThis was really interesting. Especially the examples you gave. It also gave me new useful information and I learnt a lot thanks to this :D
Good job ;)
Hi Ruby! This was a really interesting post. I like the way you laid out your post as it's really neat. You explain the definition really well as was able to understand the meaning.Next time I think you should add some colour to make it more colourful. However, this is really an amazing post. Keep up the good work!
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