Pick one concept from the reading and discuss it. How are you going to use it in your own speech?
I found that in chapter 15, the concept about the types of appeals was the most useful and interesting besides knowing when you are using fallacies. There are four types of appeals: logos, ethos, pathos, and mythos. (You can find a chart of these on page 397. Logos refers to using logical proof such as facts or statistics, ethos refers to using credibility from refrences to your own knowledge of the subject at hand, pathos refers to an emotional proof through a quote or story, and finally, mythos refers to your cultural beliefs by using a well known myth or fable. Each of these are also broken down individually in more depth through out the chapter. I feel that in my own speech, I will be using logos and pathos to try and reach or persaude my audience.
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The four types of appeals intrigue me. Definitely, we would use one if not two of these types of reasoning to prove our thesis or claims. Most people in the world today, would try to use deductive reasoning or logos to prove their logic. Using facts and figures that are indisputable is probably the strongest way to have someone believe or support your view. However, sometimes logos could not be the most influential type of reasoning because there are some people out there no matter how true a claim maybe, those people might not believe it simple because of their distinct view of the world. That's where the other forms of reasoning come in. The most effective one could be pathos if the audience is very sensitive emotionally to a certain experience you or someone else had. That emotional trigger could be the turning point which brings those people to your side of the argument. It will be very good to keep these forms in mind when establishing our final speeches.
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