Reading Chapter 3, I remembered about the first time I learned about Rhetorical Situation and everything else that is in the chapter. I was taught that when I write a paper, you always have to think about the audience- you cannot write just to write something. There was a particular section that caught my attention and took me back to high school- when I learned about the rhetorical appeals.
In ninth grade, our teacher made us read the chapter about the appeals. It seemed relatively easy, but I would constantly confuse Ethos and Pathos. As a result our teacher gave us a final project in which we had to make a commercial about a made up project. The most “difficult” part was that we had to use the three appeals. It was an easy way for all of the students to have a better understanding on the appeals and why they are used. Although it was a fun project, I did not understand the importance of learning the appeals until I was in AP Lang, where we “had” (could) use the appeals in our essays to strengthen our argument on the piece.
While reading the chapter, I also remember learning how important it is to look at the source an article comes from. The source says a lot about the author and the whole piece. Moreover, it is through the source that the reader is able to realize whether the document is credible or not.