Logos Ethos Pathos Logo

The selections provide insight into showing us to recognize that rhetoric is everywhere, whether we choose to simply ignore it or not. The selections all isolate the importance of rhetoric, despite that we choose to often ignore it and fall even further to its control. One of the most occurring forms of rhetoric that employs Aristotle’s ideas of persuasion, are media advertisements. They target an audience, decide which media is best to reach that audience, and make an appeal to something that interests the audience. These are among the easiest to identify how they influence human thoughts, and emotions. If someone were to see an advertisement that suggested a payment in exchange for a better service, one might be pleased at the idea and purchase the service. If someone sees an ad that is intended for a different target audience, they might simply ignore it or become tempered that they have to sit through something that does not concern them.

Logos, is perhaps one of the best elements to use while trying to explain how rhetoric actually works in common speech, text, and media.

The reason for this, is because writing a somewhat coherent response requires that a writer think past trivial thoughts and understand the purpose of what they are attempting to write about. If they do not, then any underlying meaning within the text immediately loses its value, overall.

Personally, I find that determining what you want to learn about academic topic is best prior to looking aimlessly in hundreds of endless Google searches. That is, if you were to limit distractions from your intended goal, one might something meaningful in their research. For example, if I wanted to learn more about the Theory of Solar Engines, I would do research about proposals about how the engine would function. I would also search for claims and theses that might potentially support a thesis of my own about the probability of the existence of Solar Engines within the next century or

so.
If I was to search for a topic that was not academic, I would care less about the amount of advertisements, or distractions that appeared and maybe explore them. For example, if I knew I wanted a dog, but did not know what breed, I would do research on types of breeds that match my criteria and abilities as a potential owner. However, this does not always work the way we would like. Sometimes we see something that entices us to learn more about it. For example, if I found that I might enjoy a Dachsund, I might get distracted and instead research about their origins, and find that they are quite skilled at hunting small animals.
Finding reliable, trustworthy providers of information require learning about the provider themselves. If I searched for a company and wanted to learn about their reliability, I might read the customer reviews from other sites so as to remove the possibility of trusting fake reviews. It might not be the most accurate way to test it, but it might be one of the better ways. If a site was recommended to me by a trusted institution like a University, I might find that my finds from research would probably be the most reliable. For myself, the best way for me to enjoy researching a topic is for it to be a topic that enjoy. If I were to look for information about Bayonetta 2 and her new weapons, and the graphics, and the soundtrack; endlessly I could search without ever getting frustrated. If I were to search about ancient ideals and morals Tibetan monks held, I might get frustrated since it would not entirely entice me.
The results of my emotions are influenced by rhetoric, and rhetoric influences mostly anything with words. Exposure to the fundamental ideas of rhetoric helps us become more skilled in using it to help us to achieve our goals, and also to be witty enough to detect when it is being used on us.