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Appeals to Credibility or Character
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Credibility and Character (Ethos)" can you recognize in your text?
Word choice, tone, information on the author's expertise, and appeals to values or beliefs shared by the audience.
How and why would the author use these strategies?
The author uses word choice and tone to create the overall feel of the text. The information on the author's expertise is used to give the content credibility and the appeals to values/ beliefs shared by the audience is used to describe the issues with electrical stimulation in a way that the audience can relate to and create an opinion about.
How do these strategies affect the audience's perception of the author's credibility and character?
By providing that the author has a PhD and PT it tells the audience that he is authorized to give information on the topic and has a lot of prior knowledge of the treatment.
How does the use of these strategies impact the effectiveness of the text's overall message?
These strategies enhance the effectiveness of the message because it gives the content much more depth and meaning when there is other background to what the author is trying to portray.
Does the author seem to have any biases or assumptions that might impact their credibility?
The author seems to favor the idea of electrotherapy. He claims that in the right setting it is very effective but a lot of the problems lie in outside sources that do not have to do with the treatment itself.
Appeals to Emotion
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Emotion (Pathos)" can you recognize in the text?
Repetition of key words and tone of voice are the only ones I could recognize.
What emotional responses is the author attempting to create?
The author does not attempt to create much emotional response in the readers.
What is the actual result?
The author mostly just presents the facts in the controversy and lets the readers create their own emotional response due to their own personal opinions.
Are these emotions effective or ineffective for this particular audience?
I would say it's effective because it allows the readers to think for themselves instead of having the author sway the readers to think a certain way.
How do these emotional appeals affect the credibility of the author or the logic of the text?
It makes the text more credible because the author doesn't need to persuade the readers a certain way. The content alone helps the reader form an opinion which makes it very credible.
Appeals to Logic
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Logic or Rational Decision Making (Logos)" can you recognize in your text?
Historical records, interviews or expert opinions, and effective organization of sentences.
What response is the author attempting to create by employing these strategies?
The author is attempting to logically explain the current issues with the use of electrical stimulation. By explaining them logically, he's attempting to get the readers to think critically for themselves about the issues and for their own opinions.
What is the actual result?
The readers form their own opinion based on the content of the text and the problems discussed.
Are these strategies effective or ineffective for this particular audience rhetorical situation?
They are effective because explaining it logically allows for the readers to believe the content of the article and form their own personal belief on the subject.
Reflection
I reviewed Morgan's and Dylan's posts. Both of them were very different from my own. Morgan's was about the use of physical punishment in children for discipline which made her case very emotion-evoking. Dylan's author was Quentin Tarantino so his writing style didn't exactly need to follow any of the bullets from the rhetorical analysis in order for people to create responses. I think after reading their posts I can conclude that mine is effective and answers the questions thoroughly.
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Credibility and Character (Ethos)" can you recognize in your text?
Word choice, tone, information on the author's expertise, and appeals to values or beliefs shared by the audience.
How and why would the author use these strategies?
The author uses word choice and tone to create the overall feel of the text. The information on the author's expertise is used to give the content credibility and the appeals to values/ beliefs shared by the audience is used to describe the issues with electrical stimulation in a way that the audience can relate to and create an opinion about.
How do these strategies affect the audience's perception of the author's credibility and character?
By providing that the author has a PhD and PT it tells the audience that he is authorized to give information on the topic and has a lot of prior knowledge of the treatment.
How does the use of these strategies impact the effectiveness of the text's overall message?
These strategies enhance the effectiveness of the message because it gives the content much more depth and meaning when there is other background to what the author is trying to portray.
Does the author seem to have any biases or assumptions that might impact their credibility?
The author seems to favor the idea of electrotherapy. He claims that in the right setting it is very effective but a lot of the problems lie in outside sources that do not have to do with the treatment itself.
Appeals to Emotion
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Emotion (Pathos)" can you recognize in the text?
Repetition of key words and tone of voice are the only ones I could recognize.
What emotional responses is the author attempting to create?
The author does not attempt to create much emotional response in the readers.
What is the actual result?
The author mostly just presents the facts in the controversy and lets the readers create their own emotional response due to their own personal opinions.
Are these emotions effective or ineffective for this particular audience?
I would say it's effective because it allows the readers to think for themselves instead of having the author sway the readers to think a certain way.
How do these emotional appeals affect the credibility of the author or the logic of the text?
It makes the text more credible because the author doesn't need to persuade the readers a certain way. The content alone helps the reader form an opinion which makes it very credible.
Appeals to Logic
Which items on the bulleted list of "Appeals to Logic or Rational Decision Making (Logos)" can you recognize in your text?
Historical records, interviews or expert opinions, and effective organization of sentences.
What response is the author attempting to create by employing these strategies?
The author is attempting to logically explain the current issues with the use of electrical stimulation. By explaining them logically, he's attempting to get the readers to think critically for themselves about the issues and for their own opinions.
What is the actual result?
The readers form their own opinion based on the content of the text and the problems discussed.
Are these strategies effective or ineffective for this particular audience rhetorical situation?
They are effective because explaining it logically allows for the readers to believe the content of the article and form their own personal belief on the subject.
Reflection
I reviewed Morgan's and Dylan's posts. Both of them were very different from my own. Morgan's was about the use of physical punishment in children for discipline which made her case very emotion-evoking. Dylan's author was Quentin Tarantino so his writing style didn't exactly need to follow any of the bullets from the rhetorical analysis in order for people to create responses. I think after reading their posts I can conclude that mine is effective and answers the questions thoroughly.
I think our articles differ a little bit. Mine was supported by a lot of statistics that were actually quite shocking. The statistics that were in my article appealed to both logic as well as emotion. I don't see statistics in your post.
ReplyDeleteReading your post was very interesting. I feel like we were very similar when it came to appeal to emotion as my article is science based and there really was no appeals to emotion. The other "appeals" were similar to mine as well and the way you described them makes me feel like I should go back and add more information on how I described mine.
ReplyDeleteHey Isabel,
ReplyDeleteTo me it seemed that your text was actually fairly similar to my own, in terms of how they were structured and how they employed rhetorical strategies. It seemed to me that in your analysis, the author's statement of his merits as holding a PhD to establish his credible expertise was one of the most effective rhetorical strategies working in your text. My text was similar, actually, in that the author really relied on appeals to credibility as she holds dual PhDs.
While appeals to emotion seemed to not be addressed much in your analysis, I think that as you said, your text may just not have used such an approach. My text was similar, as it presented facts and relied on its appeals to credibility rather than emotion.
Thanks for the read, and good work!
-Mika