Art of Agreeability
In chapter 4 of Thank You for Arguing it starts with the authors son insisting on wearing shorts to school in the winter. His dad uses different strategies to get him to wear pants to school, which includes character, logic, and emotion. He was able to use character by trying to be a stern father and telling him he is wearing pants and that was final. This strategy did not work out for him so he moved onto logic. He tried telling his son he needed to wear pants or his legs would get chapped, this is the form of logic on his argument. This then still proceeded not to work which then led the father to emotion. He asks his son if he would look stupid going to work in shorts and when his son agrees at this he concludes to ask his son why he would wear them then. These three strategies can help an argument if you are able to put them into use.
I agree, but it isn't going to help someone's argument if they don't know how to use ethos, pathos, and logos or even in the correct way. If you use them in the correct way you could make your argument more powerful so your view gets across like Heinrich did.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was quite unique the way Jay Heinrichs persuades his son to wear pants to school in the winter. He uses the 3 strategies of ethos, logos, pathos on his son. I thought it was interesting that he in all 3 scenarios used their lives to try and persuade his son, in which some way you uses pathos, appeal to emotion, in all 3 cases along with ethos and logos. If someone were try to use these strategies they would need to know how to use them exquisitely because using just one of them to try and convince the audience or whoever you are trying to persuade simply won't work.
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