Post on 04-Jan-2016
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
From “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE”
ARGUMENTIS A FORM OF PERSUASIONTHAT USES LOGIC, REASONS,AND EVIDENCE TO INFLUENCEAN AUDIENCE’S IDEAS ORACTIONS.
VALID ARGUMENT
RELIES ON LOGIC-THE PROCESS
OF CLEAR, WELL-ORGANIZETHINKING THAT LEADS TO AREASONABLE CONCLUSION.
FOUR MAJOR POINTS WITHIN
THOREAU’S ESSAY
1. GOVERNMENT IS A MEANS TO AN END.
2. THE MAJORITY WILL INEVITABLY, IN SOME INSTANCES, HARM THE MINORITY.
3. PEOPLE HAVE AN OBLIGATION NOT TO SUPPORT WHAT THEY FEEL IS WRONG.
4. THE “FREE AND ENLIGHTENED STATE”
IS ONE THAT WILL “RECOGNIZE THE INDIVIDUAL AS A HIGHER POWER.”
MAHONDAS K. GANDHI
On the Eve of Historic“DANDI MARCH”
GANDHI SUGGESTS THAT INDIANS RISE UP AGAINST THE
RULING BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
NELSON MANDELA
FROM “LONG WALK TO FREEDOM”
DETECTING BIAS: PERSUASIVE MESSAGES, SUCH AS ADVERTISEMENTS, EDITORIALS, AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS, APPEAL HEAVILY TO AN AUDIENCE’S EMOTIONS.
BANDWAGON APPEAL
ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PEOPLE
THINK THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS
DOING SOMETHING.
LOADED LANGUAGE
IS WORDS WITH STRONG CONNOTATIONS.
TESTIMONIALS
SUPPLY ENDORSEMENTSFROM EXPERTS ORCELEBRITIES.
POLLING RESULTS
OFFER NUMBERS TO SHOW
SUPPORT FOR A CERTAIN VIEWPOINT.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
From “LETTER FROM
BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL”
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES
1. LOGIC: CONCERNING ALABAMA’S
LAWS
2. ANECDOTE: KING USES HIS ACCOUNT OF
HIS ARREST FOR MARCHING WITHOUT A PARADE PERMIT.
3. KING’S FINAL SENTENCE
APPEALS TO THE READER’S
CONSCIENCE; IT IS AN ETHICAL OR MORAL ARGUMENT.