Ethos

First Name: Jessica Maxin Period: 4 School: Wootton High School

Definition #1: ethical appeal is based on the character, credibility, or reliability of the writer. There are many ways to establish good character and credibility as an author including using credible sources, respecting the reader by stating opposing position accurately, establishing common ground with your audience, ect.

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Definition #2: Ethos names the persuasive appeal of one's character, especially how this character is established by means of the speech or discourse. Source: http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

Definition in your own "student friendly" words: Ethos is established based on the ability of the speaker to be seen as honest, respectable, and honorable by an audience.

Link to example #1 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOQh3evqsI 2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: Tyra begins by explaining her personal struggles with body image and bullying based on her fluctuating weight ; thus establishing her credibility among women throughout the world struggling with similar issues. As she continues her speech, Tyra uses her respectability among her audience to instill power in women to disregard the negativity and love themselves regardless of peer perceptions.

Link to example #2 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: ﻿Joel Burns uses an honest portrayal of the horrors that occurred in his youth due to lack of acceptance to establish trust among the audience and todays youth. His pure emotion and desire to make a change causes youth to trust Joel and take his lead to a life that will get better.

First Name: Kimberly Klausing Period: 3 School: Wootton High School

Definition #1: "Ethos or ethical appeal: focuses on the writer (or speaker), presenting him or her as a person worthy of the reader's trust. You are trying, in other words, to create an appropriate image for yourself in the text." Source: []

Definition #2: "The degree of credibility or trustworthiness that authors establish with the audience through their writing." Source: []

Definition in your own "student friendly" words: Ethos is discussion where the speaker wants to create reliability, integrity and authority to the audience through their writing.

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2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: MLK equates himself to his audience by relating his struggles during this time as an African American. Also, he expresses his position of authority and trust by reminding the reader he is a minister. In addition, MLK quotes the philosopher Thomas Aquinas and his beliefs on unjust laws to justify his reasons for breaking the law.

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2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: Clinton starts the news conference by stating, as the President, a new education policy in his administration, a topic of interest to everyone. He establishes his position of power as the President before he introduces the topic of Monica Lewinsky and emphatically denies the allegations against him. He also minimizes the importance of the allegations by stating he is busy on the State of the Union Address, something more significant to the public and the nation then the petty allegations.

First Name: Jasmin Period: ﻿ 4 School: ﻿Cesar Chavez Capital Hill Campus

Definition #1: ethos is one of the three artistic proofs or modes of persuasion

Source: [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos#Rhetoric] Definition #2: Ethos appeals to the writer’s character. Ethos can also be thought of as the role of the writer in the

argument, and how credible his/her argument is.

Source: [] Definition in your own "student friendly" words: Ethos is one out of the three elements of persuasion. Link to example #1 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): []

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: We all can recognize the 1963 "I have a dream speech" by Martin Luther King. Dr. King believed that everybody would be treated as equal in the future. He had a dream that everybody would stop discriminating each other by skin color. Black and whites coming together as one. This speech is a good example of ethos because DR. king had courage to take a stand make a change to the world. Everyone was persuaded by his speech because he felt a connection with his audience, he knew the pain that the people felt. Link to example #2 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): []

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: Super woman by Alicia keys is a very inspirational song to women everywhere. This song is another example to ethos because even though she has a high reputation but she can also connect with people.