Free-Write: Chapter 12

The reading last night was quite enthralling. I never knew the nature of argument was so malleable to the goals of the arguer. Rhetoric can take the forms of many different instances, like the trail of Platonian values across time. His style formed around the content, the speaker, and the audience, and those connections. It was broad, general, and based on accuracy. Nowadays, style can be molded to fit these purposes that are built around the pathos-logos-ethos triangle. If one is trying to persuade a group of fashion agents and promoters of something, one better be stylish, in the sense of fashion and avoid any feux pauxs. The style of the president when he addresses the nation, especially in these times, carries a whole different feel when he is positive rather than speaking of the terrible harbingers and dark things that hang over us. Those are styles of leadership. The style of medium also is very important, ranging from newspaper articles to visual advertisements.

In Unit 3, this analysis of style will carry a lot of oomph for the overall group project. The way we construct our pieces of argument and the genre that medium is created in will be very important to the overall success of the project. Whether that medium is a news article, a pamphlet, or a video advertisement/message, the style those items are created will pertain highly to whether the audience take interest in reading it or listening, and whether the argument itself will take hold.