Week 12 Posting

My understanding of the word rhetoric comes mostly from what I had learned during my English 103 class with Professor Todd McKinney.  Rhetoric is made up of logos, ethos, and pathos and deals with different ways to persuade and appeal to your reader.  The logos part of rhetoric is based on the logic and reason part of your argument.  It gives the reader the chance to take note at your resources you use as well as how you came up with your point.  The ethos component of rhetoric is the credibility and appeal that the speaker gives off.  It is the best representation of the author, what makes you different from others and how it is shown throughout your paper.  And pathos is simply the emotion driven component of your paper.  How you draw in your readers, like a personal experience.  So is it the things we say, how we act, and what we wear?  Yes, rhetoric can be all of those things.  The most common place that i have heard the word has been in an English class, and is used frequently, or at least rhetoric themes.  I will most defnitely corrolate the art of rhetoric into my project.  This is something that is relevant to my topic, it has great emotional strengths....not some much with the logic and credibility.......but yeah, pathos are there