English Notes: March 29, 2018

Audience: Who are these people? What do they believe?
What are the circumstances (i.e. OCCASION) for your speech?
Argument: What are you claiming? What evidence helps to
support those claims? What strategies/tactics will work on
this audience?

The more you're able to develop who your audience is, they better you'll be
able to construct your argument to be most effective on those who you are
speaking to.

For the remainder of class we worked on our research papers.

What I personally did for the remainder of the period was I worked on
developing my knowledge on my audience. The people I'm working
on reaching out to and arguing against are those who believe that radical
teachings of religion are a necessary part in preserving the religion in its
purest form. What I learned was that many people believe that the younger
generations are practicing a diluted version of the religion.

After I had developed my audience, I had figured that the best way to
construct my argument is by introducing it with pathos, back it up with ethos,
then use logos to pull it all together and wrap up my argument.

Why I chose to open up with pathos is because religion isn't based upon logic.
The first layer of any religion is the emotional attachment those have to it.
Once you peel back that layer, they will then backup their argument with
evidence about their religion and their teaching style. The heart of it all would
be logos and I'll use that to support my argument finally because that's where
those arguing against me lack most. They lack the logic needed.

Now, how this will all apply to the "real world" once I (or you) leave this
room is that it'll teach us to argue efficiently. It's important to learn how to
argue your point the best you can because you need more than just your passion
to fuel your argument. You need evidence and logic along with the emotion.
It'll reduce the time you'd need to get your argument across and it'll make you more credible.