Refer to the document linked with the button for my annotations for A Brief Thompson p.72-87
Purdue Owl Video Notes
- Logos
- Ethos
- Pathos
- Rhetoric: awareness of the the language we choose to use
- Originated from Greek practice called “preparing speeches”
- Sophists: believed they could teach anyone to use rhetoric, for the right amount of money
- People thought that if everybody learned to use rhetoric, the strategies would become meaningless and empty; hence why not everyone was pleased that the sophists were willing to teach anyone about rhetoric. They also worried this would cause people to stop caring about the morality or truth of their arguments.
- Writing: a process of making an argument. Therefore, rhetoric can be defined as: using the available means of persuasion to make an argument.
- All of these are tools that we use to make our arguments more effective.
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