Should teens and college students work during school? There have been countless arguments based on this topic and there is not a clear answer. However, Jeffrey J. Selingo confidently supports and claims that teens and college students should work during school. He uses several strong examples of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout his essay “Why more Teenagers and College students need to work while in school.” Selingo uses ethos several times and effectively persuades the audience with a powerful sense of trust. Most people would believe or trust someone who is trained or highly experienced in a certain subject rather than someone random’s opinion. Hence, Selingo inputs several quotes from professionals who are experienced and well-informed …show more content…
Logos is the most effective rhetorical appeal which uses logical thinking and facts to persuade the audience. The most effective way to persuade someone is with pure facts or data such as statistics. Hence, Selingo also provides several strong logo examples throughout his essay and easily convinces his audience. For example, Selingo claims that jobs can give young people a rhythm to their day, “ it’s where [students] learn the importance of showing up on time, keeping to a schedule, completing a list of tasks, and being accountable to a manager who might give them their first dose of negative feedback so they finally realize they’re not as great as their teachers, parents, and college acceptance letters have led them to believe”(para. 11). Selingo lists several factors that one job can provide or help students during and after school. All the benefits and the explaination he provided makes the reader believe that his claim is the most logical statement to trust. He also was able to conclude that “[passing] up a job while in school means that teenagers and undergraduates lose more than just a paycheck”(para. 10). He was able to prove his claim with evidence to show that it is worth it to work during school which is another strong example of logos. Therefore, Selingo can use logos to its full extent and convince the audience …show more content…
Pathos uses emotions which is also an effective way to persuade your audience. Giving a personal experience or evoking emotions is an effective way to make the reader relate to or understand what the author has been through. Selingo gives multiple examples from his personal experience such as,“a college student who attended a job- training program in Boston told [him that] he was surprised when the sessions were not canceled after an overnight snowstorm. He said professors in college regularly canceled classes for all sorts of reasons, including the weather”(para. 13 ). This shows that a majority of college students including himself is not used to the expectations in a typical workspace. There are also probably many students all over the country in the same position as him. So, his claim is correct: it’s very difficult for students to demonstrate a strong work ethic without experience. Another example he provided was when he interviewed employers and they said that “college graduates are willing to work hard to get the job done. But all of them had stories about the behaviors they found unacceptable: young employees checking Facebook incessantly on their computers, leaving the middle of a team project meeting to go for a workout at the gym, or asking for a do-over when an assignment went awry”(para. 12). This is a strong example because it’s from his own experience by interacting without employers from various companies. If they are
Assignment #1 good use of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos) most effectively portrays pathos and is trying to help us understand why we should care about social situations like this through emotions, credibility, and logic Logos • footnotes at the bottom adds calculations in intelligence and to support her arguments (notes to readers what she is telling us is not anecdotal evidence but rather experts agree minimum pay wage is not feasible to living) • uses of many footnotes to give statistical facts that are evidence to support the information/argument she states • Ex) "in 1991 there were forty-seven affordable rental units available to every one hundred low-income families, while by 1997 there were only thirty-six such units for every one hundred
Pathos is an emotional appeal that is meant to persuade the audience through appealing to their emotions. Tim Felliss make use of pathos to beseech and solicit sympathy from the audience thereby making them feel what he wants them to feel. “I was sitting in the back of my used minivan…when I decided I was going to commit suicide.” At this point, the audience is silent and very sorry for why the author would kill himself. However, they feel relieved when he said that he had found a reason to take his finger off the trigger.
To persuade readers authors use pathos by creating an emotional connection essentially
A persuasive ethos consists of three essential qualities: virtue/cause, practical wisdom/craft, and disinterest/lack of bias. An audience tends to trust someone more when they realize they share values or a cause, in this situation the speaker only needs to appear as though they embody the audience’s values, personally they don’t have to agree with them. Values differ amongst various groups, what is normal to one may seem completely maniacal to another, therefore it is up to the speaker to read the audience and determine its values. The appearance of a well-known skill or knowing what to do provides the targeted group with a sense of comfort and trust for the expert. Coming off as impartial or caring only for your audience’s desires goes a long way in the interest of building ethos.
Letter to the Editor: An Unreliable Source After having researched through several different letters to editor’s I found a topic that I found interesting since I am just now starting college classes this year. The letter to the editor I discovered is titled “Universities Teaching Racism.” It was written by a Jacqueline A. Postal. She goes on to try to prove her claim by using bias and a few unexplained quotes.
For my poster, I established logos by addressing the benefits of taking a break when feeling overwhelmed with schoolwork, reminders, and notifications. By addressing the benefits and importance of taking a short break in college, I appealed to logical reasoning by stating specific examples of how taking a break during schoolwork and studying can be beneficial and even help students perform better when they are more rested. Moreover, by addressing the importance of taking a break, I supported my main point of view on the issue of feeling stressed and overwhelmed in college by addressing specific reasons the spring semester or the beginning of any semester can cause many students to stress, including syllabus week, adjusting to new classes, and viewing deadlines for various assignments. Furthermore, I appealed to logical reasoning in my poster by stating how all college students experience some form of stress and that the beginning of the spring semester can be stressful, so that the audience may understand why the benefits of taking our break are significant to my main point. By using logical reasoning to support my point, I desired to develop pathos and logos through the same information by explaining the benefits of taking a break, which appeals to logos by providing important information and pathos by creating empathy in a student audience who can understand the
Some lessons from the Assembly Line by Andrew Braaksma is an article describing the authors motivation for taking school seriously. In his article Braaksma, identifies the work he chooses to carry out during summer months to be utter "torture" compared to campus life. Although he describes the jobs in such manner he admits he learns valuable lessons from his experience as well as his temporary coworkers who often remind him to keep studying. Braaksmas article is an excellent piece to read when you find yourself slacking in your studies. The point is clear in which Braaksma is conveying.
Pathos is another significant element in the film. Guggenheim shows pathos throughout by including Gores tragic life stories, word choice, and his various analogies. Guggenheim brings pathos into the film when Gore starts talking about his six-year-old son who was hit by a car chasing his friend across the street (25:50). This scene in the film allows the audience to feel sympathy towards Gore and allows the audience relate to Gore as some of the audience maybe parents. Gore then relates this story back to global warming by tying it in with how it changed everything in his life and he learned what was important to him.
In his piece, “Why More Teenagers and College Students Need to Work While in School” Jeffery Selingo argues that more teenagers and college students should work while
Going out of your comfort zone can be a terrifying thought for many; however, what if going out of your comfort zone involved divine intervention? A prophet that I’m insinuating here is Moses who has shown on countless occasions has many reservations on becoming a prophet. This idea is highlighted in the story of mana as recounted in the Old Testament. The story of mana is an intriguing tale that highlights the complexities of human nature, faith, and divine provision. Through various rhetorical strategies like pathos, logos, and ethos God and Moses are able to mold their extremely malleable relationship while “solving” the qualms of the Israelities.
Logos can back up what is being said, and strengthen what is being argued. Selingo talks about how students go into college with no experience in jobs and he backs this up with “The number of teenagers who have some sort of job while in school has dropped from nearly 40% in 1990 to just 205 today, an all-time low since the United states started keeping track in 1948,” (paragraph 2). This backs up what is being said by using real data from real sources to give the reader real insight and side with Selingo. Logos can also be used to ensure that what the reader is reading is factual. Selingo talks about how students would work full time and that “they would earn only $15,000 a year at federal minimum wage.
The impact of advertisements over the last few decades has transformed tremendously due to the close relationship between media and pop culture. Ads have switched from simple black-and-white newspaper columns to star-studded, mascot-driven television commercials that engage the viewer on a deeper level. The reason for this switch stems from the producer’s responsibility to impose the correct ethos, pathos, and logos on the consumer to convince them to buy their product in an attention-grabbing way. Ethos refers to the credibility of a source, pathos is the emotion received, and logos deals with the logical, statistical side. In partnership with their bee mascot, the Cheerios commercial from February 2023 utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to
Introduction Producers of commercials use the elements of rhetoric so they can convince their audience. Producers use all three elements of rhetorical in their commercials. Logos is used to convince viewers by providing statistics, facts, or figures. Ethos is activated when producers use someone who is considered a respectable authority figure to provide reliability and credibility. Pathos convinces viewers by evoking an emotional response.
Chapter 4 2.3 Sex appeal • This tagline is for “Sex appeal”. • This tagline was found in a picture from Google. • The term “Sex appeal” is used to refer to the way of picturizing something in a sexual way. The tagline used in this term is “Why was Chickaboo on the fast lane? Because Its Crunchy Time!”.
On the other hands, ignore that someone can learn from different blue-collar jobs. For example, for some people they need school to learn the steps of solving a math problem, but other people can look the problem in figure out the ways it work. Students has two choice in life how to be successful; first finish school have e better job and educated or go straight to work learn from your boss and co-workers. Both of them equality is the same whether some students go to school or work it’s depends on the person to become