Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are three main ways you can convince your audience that your knowledgeable about the topic you are covering. Ethos relies on how credible you appear. Pathos plays on emotion and sympathy, while Logos acts on logic.
Your purpose as a writer is to get your audience interested in and behind what your topic is. Ethos helps you come across in your paper however you want your audience to perceive you. Ideally, you would want your audience to see you as credible, ethical, and well-informed. Ethos is the proof you give your audience that you know what you are writing about.
Any emotional connection you make with your audience uses pathos. Whether it is a tender-hearted story that makes them tear up, or a tale that invokes sympathy, pathos is there. Pathos increases the audience's connection to the author by way of emotion.
Logos uses logic, plain and simple. Logos can be a quote from an outside source, statistic, or maybe an excerpt from a well-known book that proves your point. By using logos, an author who may have been discredited at first can now gain credibility from using his outside sources.
Sierra,
ReplyDeleteVery good explanation on Ethos, Pathos, ad Logos. I can understand better now. The text doesn't really help much.
Sierra, nicely concise and precise explanations!
ReplyDeleteSierra,
ReplyDeleteYou explained logos, pathos, and ethos very well! You rewrote the definitions into your own words and made them really easy to understand. I did not like how the textbook explained logos, pathos, and ethos, but you did a really nice job. Your picture also helped explain the differences. Nice job!
Sierra,
ReplyDeleteI think that rewriting definitions is a great way to help yourself memorize it. I also don't really like textbook definitions and tend to like visuals more than anything.