Blog #1 Genres
An important way to express genres and to really get a point across and into the intended audience's view is to use rhetoric appeals that clearly demonstrate the situation. The audience can get hooked in three different ways and really buy into the piece that they are reading with the use of simple rhetoric appeals. Ethos, pathos, and logos are the three used. The best way to really hook and sell the audience would be the combination use of all three appeals. Ethos is the credibility of the writer and the purpose of this use is to really persuade the audience and keep them tuned throughout the entire piece. One is able to contribute this to genre by expressing their first hand experiences in great detail. The next way would be to establish pathos in the writing. Pathos is appealing to the audience and getting them connected through the use of emotions. One way to establish emotions is by using transcending adjectives that really speak and relate to the intended audience. For example, if one were to write a journal about a traumatic event in their life saying, "I was scared" will not hook the audience but instead something like, "I had never felt my knees shake and mouth quiver as timidly as it had the night the tornado whizzed through my neighborhood, destructing everything in sight." The intended reader stays engaged and locked due to the use of the emotional connect. The third rhetorical style to keep the intended reader engaged is with logos. Logos gets through to the audience by supporting all statements with evidence to make them into facts. When everything is supported with evidence, facts, and citations it is extremely difficult for the reader or audience to build doubt about the piece. They will believe the piece of writing more and definitely buy into it. When the three rhetorical appeals are used together throughout a genre, the work goes from average to above average and keeps the attended audience engaged throughout.
