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.