Day Twenty-Seven / 10.14.10

Today we started with a quote from Paul Simon: “Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.” Then, we finished our discussion of ethos, pathos, and logos. We went over inductive/deductive reasoning. Your homework is below:

On a separate sheet of paper, please complete the following.

Persuasive Thesis Statement: _______________

Ethos. Provide 3 reasons for why you are a credible source.

Pathos. Provide 3 reasons for how you can draw someone’s feelings into your argument (humor, appeal to happiness, etc.).

Logos. Provide 3 facts you can use to strengthen your argument.

Show one example of inductive / deductive reasoning to prove one of your facts.

My example is below:

Ethos, Pathos, Logos