ENGLISH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Pathos
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Informative speeches reveal options and persuasive speeches urge a choice among the options. Supporting material vs. evidence for a cause. Credibility to be have more persuasion vs. right to teach. Ethical obligation is more important for persuasive speeches than informative. Types of persuasive speaking (strengthen claims, reawaken values, practical plans for solution). Truth, evaluate, and action. (revolving around a situation) Present other facts that confirm what they claim. (charts and statistics for ex. ) Present supporting testimony from recent, respected expert sources. (authority like. Re-create dramatic, credible narrative of how events in a dispute may have happened. Question the facts for definition of the events. (yes there was sexual activity but was it with consent?) Can include predictions. (pollution is higher today than ever. In 10 years we will face big consequences so we must act. ) Values = basic principles that support attitudes. Conflict between attitudes and principles are what we call cognitive dissonance.
