Assignment task: Examining Appeals to Ethos and Pathos Directions: Use the following questions to guide one's analysis of the writer's appeals to ethos and pathos. Answer the following questions for two of random sources. Topic - Unequal Access to Healthcare Because of a breakdown in interaction In Part Because of the Language Gap
1. What image does the writer project of himself or herself in this argument? What is the writer's investment in the issue?
2. How does the writer convey that he or she is knowledgeable about the issue?
3. Where does the writer acknowledge alternative views? What makes you think the writer is fair in his/her summary or recognition of these views?
4. Which of the strategies for engaging the audience's emotions and imagination does the writer use: concrete language, specific examples, narratives, and connotative and metaphoric language?
5. How are the writer's appeals to ethos and pathos tailored to the argument's original audience and site of publication?
6. For he or she, the reader, how important are the ethos of the writer and the emotional and imaginative appeals in winning one's consideration of this argument?