I believe that the most important Rhetoric would have to be Pathos. Pathos is the emotional control over an audience, which you can make your audience believe what you want them to believe. When the reader reads your paper, you want them to be interested. By using pathos in such a way, the audience can cry, laugh, and enjoy your paper the way you want them to. I think when I read something, I want to be involved or like have a little laugh or something. Like the Taylor Swift piece we read for class, I was laughing along and I understood what the author was saying. Sometimes I'm reading an essay and I don't even understand what they are trying to say because of the lack of pathos.
In my papers however I noticed all I did was use Logos. I know I sound kind of like a hypocrite, but I read my papers and all I had was a bunch of information. Now that I see it though, revising it so that I can draw in my audience, or try to draw in a audience, would be a good idea. I guess I just thought that I needed to support my idea more than speak to my audience.
Logos is important and it's good that you used it in your papers. I agree with you though; logos is not entirely effective on its own. If someone wanted to read something that was purely just facts, they would grab a textbook or something. The reason why they would choose to read what you have to say instead would have to be for the pathos. Connecting with the readers is really important and I think I need a lot of work on it too. When we do our group revisions and what not, I hope we can all help each other utilize logos, pathos and ethos better.
ReplyDeleteI know where you coming from about pathos being the most important. I actually did the opposite in my papers, I ended up using too much pathos and not enough logos and ethos in my paper. These are things I will definetly need to revise in my paper. Im glad that we will have eachother to edit our papers so we can fix these mistakes and create more balance.
ReplyDeleteEveryone keeps saying "Pathos." You are all brainwashed by Rachel.
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