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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Rhetoric


Photo from this page.

In my previous post I wrote about making my audience understand my writing. This can be set in context of rhetoric. This is a concept I learned about in high school. Rhetoric is about seizing and connects with the audience, whether it is in writing or speaking. In Rhetoric we can look at a triangle called the Rhetorical Triangle. Here we have three factors working together; Ethos, pathos and logos. When these three are working together the rhetoric works best. You use your language to communicate something, to impress or persuade in an effective manner (ethos). Pathos is the audience you want to connect with in maybe an emotional way, or in a way that makes the audience recognize themselves or make them achieve something. Logos is all the information and content in the message or text. 

My way of connecting with my audience, in this blog, is by using pictures and to allow myself to write heuristic and unrestrained. I have chosen the pictures so that you as a reader get a better understanding of what the post will contain. I also believe it's more entertaining to look at pictures between the reading to get a little break from all the black and white. That's at least what I prefer. 

If you are writing a blog, how do you try to connect with your readers? 





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