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Ethos, Pathos, Logos, & Toulmin Method Analysis of High school English paper on The Motivation to Self-Actualization, based on Maslow’s theory of the  Hierarchy of Needs.

Abstract: This paper consisted on exposing the hierarchal levels of Maslow’s theory to understand what motivates us to fulfill self-actualization, accompanied by textual evidence and personal life events that related to each of these levels,  concluding in achieving self-actualization or not.

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Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Ethos– As a student, my duty was to provide my readers with an in-depth background and explanation of Maslow and his theory on the hierarchy of Needs, requiring me to do my own research at an extended level to provide for this account, becoming knowledgeable enough in the subject; In addition, I was entailed to include evidence from an autobiographical novel and bring forth my personal experience in order to account for this theory.

Pathos–  By including a recount of my own life events as a teenager in high school, I was able to appeal to a great majority of my audience, being it that they were students as well.  In my description of life events, many would sympathize, and in a way becoming particular to them because they could relate to it at a firsthand level. Continue reading “Blog Post #2- Personal Academic Writing Analysis-Ethos, Pathos, Logos & Toulmin Methods” →

Toulmin Method- Content and Form

1. Claim: Rhetoric requires understanding a fundamental division between what is communicated through language and how this is communicated.
2. Warrants: Many philosophers agree that there is a connection between what is said and the way it is said.
3. Qualifiers:  There is an artificial division between form and content.
4. Rebuttals: It is hard to make a distinction between the content and the form of it being it that there is a difference in the way a person perceives the language being expressed than another.
5. Backing: Philosophers like Aristotle and Roman authors have come to conclusions of the distinction they are able to make between the speech known as logos and the style of the speech known as lexis.

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