WRD 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hull House, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media
• Course: WRD 110
• Professor: Emily Naser-Hall

Document Summary

Ethos = the character of the speaker or writer. Pathos = emotional, feeling, or felt experiences. Logos = logic; the structure of our arguments. Inductive reasoning - generalizing conclusions from facts or details. Rhetor - the person who is talking. Audience - who are you talking to, and what is your target. Constraints - what limits do you need to think about. A speaker who wishes to address the issue. Types : general public & target group. General public : everyone has different views! Target : who you are hoping will read it. Genre constraints : in this case, it is the medium. Material constraints = equipment, space, and time.