Appealing to your readers

Writing practice: Appealing to your readers

Review the guidelines in the chart in section 6e for using ethical, logical, and emotional appeals as a writer. Annotate your draft to identify how you’ve used these appeals to establish your credibility (ethos) and to appeal to your readers’ sense of logic and reason (logos) and to their values and beliefs (pathos). Ask a classmate to comment on the effectiveness of your appeals. Use the space below to record your classmate’s feedback.

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Question

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Review the guidelines in the chart in section 6e for using ethical, logical, and emotional appeals as a writer. Annotate your draft to identify how you’ve used these appeals to establish your credibility (ethos) and to appeal to your readers’ sense of logic and reason (logos) and to their values and beliefs (pathos). Ask a classmate to comment on the effectiveness of your appeals. Use the space below to record your classmate’s feedback.