ENGL 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pathos
21 Sep 2017
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How do you feel about the dramatic examples that the chapter opens with as a way of introducing its claim that arguments are all around us - from the news we watch to the. Arguments to persuade and convince are the arguments that stand out to me the most in terms of their relevance to my life. Aristotle"s three classifications for arguments based on time - past, present, and future. The present arguments based on time are in the now, while past and future are different time periods. The relationship between a writer, the writer"s text, and the writer"s audience is extremely important. The relationships of writer"s text and writer must combine to create a greater understanding for the audience. The audience addressed is the actual physical being that will be reading the writing. Audience invoked is an an audience the writer constructs and asks to play a specific role while reading.
