In Class: Rhetorical Thinking

Rhetorical thinking is talking apart an argument and really analyzing it. But of course the arguments that use ethos, pathos or logos are most effective. When you analyze it you should look at both sides and see who wrote it and if someone was sponsoring it. Then you can get a bigger picture on what is happening. The book gave an example when they were talking about the anti-war pictures and how some people use close-ups but that might not really show the whole picture. I thought the argument using Bob Dylan was really funny and I do wonder why VS chose to have him on their commercial. The more you can analyze who is saying something the better. But if you are going to write something yourself you need to make sure that you can draw everyone's attention. And you want to make sure that when you do this, that people will be willing to listen to you because they can see that you know what you are talking about. We have to make sure we pick our audience and see if we want what we say to be said in a comical way or to be really serious. An example of a very serious add the book gives is the one of the drunk driving poster. The book puts it in the Ethos section, but it is also a very serious topic because it has changed the injured girls life forever. If you are super effective, you can show both sides at the same time fairly equally and still prove your point.