Three Persuasive Appeals & Analyzing an Online Opinion Piece for the How the Writer Uses the Appeals

Part one:
1) Authority has to do with the tone that represents your self confidence on the topic and helps to persuade to listen to your argument because you sound like you know what you are talking about. Emotion is when you create a “sympathetic connection” with the audience members by expressing your thoughts that might have a correlation with your audience. Logic is when your arguments seems well presented and you make your presence felt through both emotion and authoritative manners.

2) To appeal to the reader’s trust in authority one can prior to the argument, can research to illustrate that he/she knows what they are saying and or create a authoritative tone when presenting their claim. It is important to get your readers to trust you as an authority because they become more likely to listen to everything you have to say.

3) Good strategies for appealing to emotion are trying to make some sort of connection with your audience. Hypothetically you present an event in which the audience was apart of or has been effected by. One example, having a family member pass.

4) A potential disadvantage to using heavy appeal can be getting side tracked from the point you are trying to make by talking about these emotional events. For instance, if you are focused on a comical connection with your audience and go on talking about a comical event you can then lose sight of your own argument.

5) Logos can build a strong argument by showing that you do have a very well perceived understanding on the subject. It is very important to use logos in an argument due to the fact that if your listeners are not paying you any attention because you sound unconvincing about the subject then true claim will not be totally viewed.

6) No they are not effective when seperated because if your authority is inadequate then emotion and logic will not be viewed the same way as they would be if the audience trusted your authority.

Part two:
Childhood Obesity:
By Janet Barnett
The writer of this persuasive argument was very convincing when presenting his claim. He backed up his information with numerous statistics from clinical research programs. When presenting the information on childhood obesity the writer clearly identifies all the necessary features for helping to reduce obesity with children. For example, Barnett the writer states “Promotion of fitness, wellness, active lifestyles, clinical intervention, preventive screenings, and health education are keys to defeating obesity in children and adults nationally.” This helps to clearly represent his data, showing that he has a coherent understanding on the topic which helps to influence the reader to trust her ethos. Arguing on topic that relates to everyone living, because in some way everyone has or has known a person that has the attributes of being obese whether it be a family member or just a friend. By trying to persuade the argument using a method, the health report card, the relationship between the audience and writers becomes intact because the audience can positively relate. This connection allows the writer to use pathos in his favor. Since the writer has both ethos and pathos the writer now uses logos to help win over the topic he is trying to persuade. The author has presented both authoritative and emotional aspects of the argument, by doing this the reader now pays attention more intensely to what she has to say or in this case write.
Therefore the writer does use the three appeals ethos, logos and pathos effectively and helps her to gain the audiences trust through the three strategies.