Ethos, Pathos, Logos

     The strongest pieces of writing contains these three rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, think about it. Every great piece of writing that you have read has contained at least one of these appeals. In my opinion, when a writing appeals to pathos, that is the strongest way to get their point across and get people to follow whatever it may be that the writer is trying to get the audience to think or do.
     Emotion is the force that will make people make a change, as John Edlund wrote in his article "Three Ways to Persuade" he says "logical arguments for banning or not banning assault rifles had not changed at all, but people were emotionally engaged with the issue after [the] event and wanted to do something". Emotion brings more change than anyone's image or logic would.
     A writers character/credibility is the first thing that a reader looks for in a piece of writing, it's like the first step on stairs. If I were reading a article about the universe and it was talking about aliens and things like that, and if it was coming from some regular citizen, I wouldn't want to read it because it's most likely not credible. I rather read the article from an astronomer, someone who's an expert in the field. That's just the way things go.
     Appealing to logic is another to get your point across in an argument, for the sole reason that it's reasonable. Nine times out of ten if an argument sounds reasonable, you're going to listen in on it more because it sounds right, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is right though. It just makes sense.
     For a solid argument, at least one of these three rhetorical strategies should be used to build a more solid argument. We all know how essential these elements are to an argument because we have seen these appeals used correctly and incorrectly, they're needed to persuade.