Comparing Aristotle's Ethos, Pathos And Logos

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Persuasive speaking is a topic I have always been interested in, the way some orators are able to influence their audience by using Aristotle’s Ethos, Pathos, Logos appeal, seems to be a very important skill for any individual that is looking to have an impact when speaking to an audience. The first thing I needed to accomplish was finding a topic that would get my audience’s interest, while also providing them with an important piece of information with a positive impact; I thought skin care was an important topic that sometimes, people don’t give it the importance it deserves Going over every step specified in the syllabus, I noticed how this speech made an important emphasis on the order of the stages used to give this presentation, the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence seems to be specifically designed with the purpose of taking advantage of the audience’s attention in order to convince them of accepting the speaker’s viewpoint. The attention stage, challenged me to obtain my audience’s focus; for this step I thought a personal story was perfect to get my audience to relate with my speech, a short narrative about my childhood would allow me to do that since I narrated a common situation in anyone’s life that could also bring memories to the audience, by doing this the listeners would be more engaged with my presentation. …show more content…

I started by investigating on the internet on multiple articles, I tried to find approved medical articles for each topic I needed; I also used a book that covered information on contact dermatitis, and consulted my dermatologist aunt for a brief interview on the importance of skin care. By implementing facts accompanied by numbers, I was able to persuade the audience into giving more importance to the

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