“Don’t” a word used a little too often in the article “11 Rules for Raising Teenagers.” Author Ellen Rittberg states her opinion in how she believes these eleven rules are what you need when raising teens. In Rittberg’s article the eleven rules are broken down into how each of these rules apply to teenagers and why they need to be enforced by parents while raising their teenagers. Although Rittberg may have good intentions in providing a guideline of rules in raising teens, she gives a bad impression to readers by making logical fallacies on many occasions, inappropriate use of appeals when trying to relate to readers, and using offensive word choices when trying to get her point across. Throughout the piece, Rittberg makes logical fallacies on multiple occasion. She first makes a hasty generalization when stating “Don’t buy your teen a car. If you do, he will total it or wreck it in record time. Guaranteed.” Rittberg not citing any proof or evidence of such “Guaranteed” …show more content…
For example, Rittberg goes on to say, “What they need is for you to be a reliable responsible role model worthy of their respect and not come overgrown finger-snapping hipster who wears too tight jeans.” Using this appeal of ethos is inappropriate when trying to prove the point she’s making. A statement such as the one shown in the example above can offend the audience of parents and lead to losing respect of readers. Another inappropriate use of appeal is when Pober Rittberg suggest “if you buy into teen logic (which is basically illogic, the product of an immature brain and every extreme of emotion known to mankind) your mouth will go dry and your ears and nerves will surely fray.” Using this appeal of pathos is another inappropriate way of trying to relate to her readers. Only leaving the audience once again offended that she may have just called their teens brain illogic and
Pathos is the author's use of emotions and sympathy to urge the audience to agree with his or her standpoint. And lastly, logos apply sound reasoning (logic) to attract the typical ideas of the audience and to prove the author's point of view. "Lockdown" by Evans D. Hopkins is a fine example of an author using these appeals to persuade his audience. Hopkins uses of the three appeals are easy to locate and relate to throughout the entire passage. He undoubtedly uses rhetoric to try and keep his audiences focused and to persuade them to feel the way he does about the treatment of prisoners.
The article “The Coddling Of The American Mind”, written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, was written about how teachers are afraid of what they are allowed to say during in class because of the emotional effect on the students. While writing the article the authors have many examples of logos, ethos, and pathos. The logos of the article appeals to logic by presenting facts and statistics. The writers provide definitions of words such as microaggression and trigger warning. While explaining the definitions they go on to give real world examples to further the understanding of the words. Also statistics of the amount of mental health issues are provided to enhance the logos. Secondly to make the article more appealing is adding an emotional
In the “180” movie Ray Comfort outstandingly used rhetorical appeal throughout his argument in a thorough way to further grasp his audience’s attention. He used pathos, ethos, and logos during the course of his dispute of abortion and the Holocaust. Comfort uses pathos more frequently than the other two appeals, to plea to the audience’s heart strings. An example of when pathos was used was when
In regards to her pathos persuasions she uses detailed and emotion-packed quotes in order to provoke her audience’s emotions. When it comes to her ethos persuasions, she uses them intermittently throughout her article by referencing her job title as an instructor and clearly establishing her themes and goals of the article in order to create a credible and dependable persona for her audience. Last but surely not least, Ellen Roses utilizes logos persuasions in order to influence her readers in a way that they understand her writing and logically believe what she is
In the editorial, the author makes an argument that most students do not want to learn mathematics. They are forced to learn it and this will cause them to rarely remember what they learned after graduating. Here the author asks a question to all his audiences: "How many college graduates remember what Fermat's dilemma was all about?" (Hacker). This question makes the audiences feel like the author is talking to them and for those audiences who were college students, they will have a feeling of "yes I used to know it but I totally forgot it now" and this feeling supports the author's argument effectively. Another example is what the author mentions in the last paragraph of his editorial: "Think of maths as a huge boulder we make everyone pull, without assessing what all this pain achieves. So why require it, without alternatives or exceptions?" (Hacker). The first sentence asks the audiences to imagine and gives them a vivid analogy. Then the second sentence which is a question for the audiences appears without giving a correct answer. The author uses pathos very well here by giving his audiences the feeling that they are not just reading the editorial but also interacting with the author. With the help of that, the author successfully claims his thesis again in the last paragraph and the audiences will accept his idea not because he persuades them. The idea, which is also the
Leon Botstein, the author of “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” serves as the president of Bard College, as well as a professor of arts and humanities. Botstein wrote this article after the tragic shootings at Columbine high school in 1999. This event triggered something inside Botstein causing him to think negatively about the American high school system. In the article “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” Botstein explains, in his own words, of the corrupt happenings of present day American high school (368-369). Although Botstein may have high credentials, he provides no evidence to support his negative claims and opinions about teenagers and American high schools.
Although pathos has it’s spot in arguments and writing in general, logos, or logic, usually persuades older audiences better. Parents will have different values than kids do, and using logos is the best way to go to convince parents. She starts off by explaining her own experience with technology and how she thinks it has been the same experience for everyone. However, further on in the article to say that her thesis is wrong. “When I began my research, I expected to find hordes of teenagers who were escaping “real life” through the Internet.” Later on Boyd says, “To my surprise — and, as I grew older, relief — that differed from what most youth want.” Someone who always claims that they are one hundred percent right all the time is someone who probably is not right one hundred percent all the time. By calling herself out, she has proven that she is a much more reliable source than someone else who have studied family dynamics for ten years and have, somehow, always been
In the argument that college is not for everyone, Reeves establishes his ethos through both extrinsic and intrinsic support while maintaining clarity using the logos approach. Pathos, however, lacked the same amount of control. By using an excess amount of pathos while approaching rhetoric with a condescending tone, the author diminished the persuasiveness achieved by combining the techniques. This resulted in a limited audience due to the insulting nature of the closing remarks geared to the very audience he was trying to reach.
bell hooks ties in the three elements of argument, ethos, pathos, and logos in her essay, "Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education," by telling us about the many events of her life. hooks establishes credibility, or ethos, unintentionally, through descriptions of her achievements and character. hooks appeals to the readers logic, or logos, by giving real world examples from her personal experiences. She also appeals to the readers emotions, or pathos. Pathos is the aspect of argument she uses most heavily. hooks does this by talking about family, peers, feelings, and change. hooks shows us ,in her essay, credibility, logic, and emotion using the stories of her life.
Pathos is an appeal to emotion and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an
For example, the emotion is felt when Kozol speaks to a student from a New York, Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel? Then when asking how she thought the people of New York would feel she replied, “I think they’d be relieved” (Kozol 205). By mentioning the thoughts and emotions of individuals involved with the issues of school system segregation and inequality his reader cannot help but develop a feeling of empathy for children that feel as if no one cares about them and their issue. Kozol also uses pathos effectively by reading letters to his reader he received from young elementary school children that are not afforded the same amenities as other children in wealthier school systems, amenities such as toilet paper or the appropriate amount of restrooms. Which causes students to hold the urge to relieve themselves out of fear of being late for class (Kozol 214). With the proper use of pathos, Kozol places the reader in the same situation and assistances the reader with an understanding of his reason for conveying a concern to help children in this unfortunate situation. Another example of Pathos is when he speaks of the letters that came from third-grade children asking for help with getting them better things. He mentions a letter that had the most affected on him that came from a girl named Elizabeth, “It is not fair that other kids have a garden and new things. But we don’t have that.” (Kozol 206). This example being only one example of the few things mentioned in the letter. The tone of the little girl from when Kozol reads gives a pitiful and sad feeling. By stating this, it acts on the reader’s emotional state which creates a sense of wanting to resolve the problem of
Do you ever feel that life is getting so busy and stressful that you just wish you could go back to grade 1 where you just colour and play with toys all day? Well sadly, I can’t arrange it for you to go back in time but, I can help you in a way where you could have enough time to play with toys and feel at ease again. I have recently discovered a majestic book called the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. You may be thinking “Another useless book written by adults? N thank you.” But you are wrong. Many teenagers just like you and me have participated in writing this book by writing their own stories of how this book helped them. This book is split into 3 sections. PBA & Habits 1-3: Private Victory, Habits 4-6: Public Victory
Aristotle believes that there are three important rhetoric devices used in the art of persuasion. These rhetoric appeals are most commonly known as pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos is used for creating emotional appeals like anger or happiness to persuade the audience on a certain claim. Ethos, in arguments, creates a sense of trustworthiness between the author and audience to make an appeal credible. Logos uses strategies of logic like inductive and deductive reasoning to persuade viewers. In a 1995 Nike advertisement known as, “If you let me play,” pathos, logos, and ethos are rhetoric devices utilized to portray a better way of life for young girls that are involved in sports.
Thirteen: The Age of Adolescence Adolescence is the stage in life when you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. There are many things that still need to be explored, learned, and conquered. In the film Thirteen, the main character, Tracy Freeland, is just entering adolescence. While trying to conquer Erikson’s theory of Identity vs. Role confusion, Tracy is affected by many influences, including family and friends, that hinder her development. Many concepts from what we have learned in class can be applied to this character, from identity development, to depression, to adolescent sexuality and more.
After acknowledging to my co-worker that I did hear the conversation with the parent and that by us “brain-storming” we will be able to come up with appropriate responses for his child and the child’s biting.