Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Letter From Birmingham Jail: Thinking Critically About the Sources of Persuasion




Letter From Birmingham Jail:
Focus on a couple paragraphs and cite where you find appeals to ethos, logos and, pathos in your COMMENT. You can randomly pick a spot in King's letter and easily find all three appeals working somewhere in the vicinity.


http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html


Also, use this as a reference to identify the sources of persuasion:
http://courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html





Finally, write down ways you can appeal to the sources of persuasion (ethos, logos, and pathos) in your next essay topic.



Left to Right: Plato and Aristotle
-Inaccurately attributed most the credit for forwarding rhetorical theories.