Your Logos, Pathos, and Ethos

Your rhetorical strategy must be implicitly understood throughout your paper. In order to gear your research and argument towards rhetoric rhetorical strategies, answer the following questions with regard to your topic.


1. Who are you hoping to convince in your paper?
 In my paper I am hoping to convince the Dean and other higher ups at the Tempe campus of ASU physical health services that can deal with fitness related issues and play a part in making the proposal a reality.



2. Why might this audience be hesitant to accept your proposal?
The audience might be hesitant to accept my proposal because they might view it as taking up more money and time then what they think it is worth.



3. What is your plan to overcome this audience’s resistance?
 Show them facts and details on how if smartly done, the proposal can run very smoothly with the least amount of money used and time wasted.



4. Why are you qualified to present an argument about this subject?
I am a student that goes to ASU and I am concerned about the health and physical well-being of myself and my fellow school mates. I know how important physical activity is to the body and using the right sources I can prove to others that my ideas are logical and of sound argument.



5. What characterizes you as a speaker in your proposal? (Think about your self-disclosures, your tone, the way you’ve selected and presented arguments, etc.)
 This is a topic that not only effects the students body, but it also effects myself as well. In my paper I try to show that I am with the student body and that I plan to help those students that that can relate to me and what I am proposing. I present my paper as being formal but I also try to show how the proposal can effect a student from my perspective.



6. Write an outline of your key arguments:
How fitness is important to the body, both physically and mentally in a college setting. How physical activity improves mood, increases mental functions, decreases stress and helps regulate sleep.
Talk about why having multiple fitness outlets across campus helps students that might not have the time to go all the way across campus to excise.
Finally, talk about how by increasing fitness areas on campus can help motivate more students to become physically healthy.



7.  What kind of evidence do you rely on to support these points? (stats, analogies, personal testimony, expert testimony, experiments, etc.)

I plan to use data collected by recognized studies that show facts that help contribute to the points I make in my paper. It will consist of mostly experiments so that the facts are reliable.




8. How do you know this evidence will sufficiently support your points AND win over your audience?

That the evidence correlates well with what I am presenting is an important factor. The studies have been tested and results have been collected from them that show the tests have collected sufficient data. When it comes to health it is important to realize that there are multiple view points on the subject and when writing a proposal it helps to identify as many as you can in the paper in the hopes of winning over the audience.

Rough Draft Project 2 Written Proposal

Dear Robert Mittelstaedt, Dean

At Arizona State University, health and fitness are focused on for the benefits of the students. Below is a suggestion of what well farther benefit the students of ASU pertaining to students fitness and physical activity. Where there has been involvement to help students become fit and active, there are ways to go farther to help our students.

The suggested proposal pertains to the expanse of fitness outlets across the ASU Tempe campus. The campus already has a fully stationed fitness center that has recently been further developed, but not all students have the presents of mind to go across campus just to regulate their physical activities. In many ways having the majority of fitness outlets centered around one area is more of a hindrance to the students. Like with most things people are more likely to go out and do something when it is hosted close to a frequented living place. With the ASU fitness center it is centered far from most of the dorms and for some students in order to work out they have to walk across campus. This can be a deterrent to some students who might not have a lot of time to get to the building. To make up for that they ASU campus could be outfitted with multiple fitness areas across campus. These outlets can be placed close to the dorms and other frequented places for students. This will make the students more inclined to go out and exercise and will enhance campus health.
Sincerely,
Laura Tatone

Project 2: Written Proposal
Problem:
At the ASU Tempe Campus the fitness center is located in one area of the campus. This could be a deterrent for some students that have to go out of their way to exorcise across campus. May students might want to exorcise but when faced with the idea of going all that way it becomes a hindrance for them. Many students use walking  as a transportation around campus and the father away the fitness building is from their location, the less likely that they will want to go there. Proximity is a defining factor in a students decision making, and if the building is too far away it often leads to the idea of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. Which also leads to the problem of motivational encouragement for students to go out and do physical activities on campus.
Solution:
By placing more fitness outlets across campus and closer to the dorms the school will be promoting more students into becoming physically active and will give the students more of an incentive to go out and exorcise.
Justification:
For many students it is easier to want to go and do something if it is closer to where they like to frequent, such a their dorms. In a study conducted at a South Carolina University Julian Reed, EdD found that “Facilities close to an individuals residence will be seen often and will heighten awareness of PA[Physical Activity]. Individuals in and around the facilities who appear to be exercisers will strengthen the impact of the stimuli by making PA appear to be a social norm. Awareness of a recreational PA facility, therefore, can perhaps influence PA behavior of university  students. Maybe men and women who reported being more aware of certain PA facilities in this study lived closer to these recreational PA facilities and were cued to participate in PA at a higher frequency by individuals using the facilities” (Reed 193).
This goes to show that if the fitness outlets were closer to the students in multiple places around campus and not in one centered location, then the students will be more likely to use those facilities. If we where to create more outlets on the ASU campus there could be more students becoming physically fit. With these outlets there could be more awareness to where they are and what types of fitness the area specializes in. If the area has some way of motivating the students to go and exorcise regularly, the students would be more likely to go and be physically active.
In a study by  M. Allison Ford, PhD and Donald Torok, PhD they found that when using motivational posters around stairways and elevators of a college library, the students were more likely to use the stairs after seeing the posters on physical activity. If ASU were to create multiple fitness outlets across campus then the students could become more motivated to become fit. Along side with the new outlets there could be a larger hype to what they offer to the students and depending on where they are around campus they can focus more on one type of exorcise then another. Take for example the if there was a weight lifting room at the Palo Verde dorms.  The dorms could arrange events for students that enjoy weightlifting and they could advertise it on a weekly basis to the dorm community. Another example would be to host physically active events in the grass area at the Palo Verde dorms. That area could be use for yoga lessons, soccer, or capture the flag. All things that could be done at the fitness complex could be done in other areas of campus, with a little planning, the students could be well on there way to becoming motivated for physical activates, and with multiple fitness outlets the ASU community could make it happen.









Work Citied
Ford, M. Allison, and Donald Torok. "Motivational Signage Increases Physical Activity On A College Campus." Journal Of American College Health 57.2 (2008): 242-244. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Mar. 2013.
Reed, Julian. "Perceptions Of The Availability Of Recreational Physical Activity Facilities On A University Campus." Journal Of American College Health 55.4 (2007): 189-194. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Mar. 2013.