Section 3.1 talked mostly about angle of vision. I learned that angle of vision can be an extremely effective strategy in persuasive writing. Angle of vision makes it so the reader can only see a topic or subject from one point of view. It controls what the reader sees. As the writer, you can reveal what you want your audience to know and what will persuade them of your prose, and you can conceal anything that would broaden their view to think another way. One example of angle of vision used in the text was the difference between a description of a party to your friend versus the description of a party to your parents. The same story can be told in entirely different ways based on what you want your audience to think.
Strategies to persuade through angle of vision:
- Stating point of view directly
- Selecting some details while omitting others
- Choosing words or figures of speech with intended connotations
- Creating emphasis or de-emphasis through sentence structure and organization
The main thing I learned from 3.1 was that the writer controls what the reader sees. "In an effective piece of writing, the author's angle of vision often works so subtly that unsuspecting readers - unless thinking rhetorically - will be drawn into the writer's spell and believe that the writer's prose conveys the "whole picture" of it's subject rather than a limited picture filtered through the screen of a writer's perspective."
Section 3.2 was about Aristotle's Logos, Ethos and Pathos. These are strategies used in persuasion. Logos is the appeal to reason. It would point out why, "logically" your argument is correct. Ethos is the appeal to the character of the writer or speaker. It is not so much the ethical character, but the way that the author is credible or gives them the right to have a stance on a topic. Pathos is the appeal to sympathies, values, beliefs, and emotions of the audience.
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