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Blog Assignment #5: Website Report For this blog assignment you must examine the official website of the company or corporation that you are thinking of choosing for Essay #3. In your examination of the website, you are looking for information regarding globalization. You must complete a 250 word blog post where you answer these questions:
1. What type of information was available? a. Does it discuss outsourcing? b. Does it discuss the impact on the environment?
2. How difficult was it to find the information? 3. Was the information mainly positive or negative? 4. Does the information seem biased? 5. Discuss the visual rhetoric being used on the website. What messages do the images
portray to the viewer? 6. Discuss appeals to audience. Is ethos, pathos, and logos being used by the company or
corporation? Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Logos (Greek for 'word') refers to the internal consistency of the messagethe clarity of the claim, the logic of its reasons, and the effectiveness of its supporting evidence. The impact of logos on an audience is sometimes called the argument's logical appeal. Ethos (Greek for 'character') refers to the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer or speaker. Ethos is often conveyed through tone and style of the message and through the way the writer or speaker refers to differing views. It can also be affected by the writer's reputation as it exists independently from the messagehis or her expertise in the field, his or her previous record or integrity, and so forth. The impact of ethos is often called the argument's 'ethical appeal' or the 'appeal from credibility.' [P]athos (Greek for 'suffering' or 'experience') is often associated with emotional appeal. But a better equivalent might be 'appeal to the audience's sympathies and imagination.' An appeal to pathos causes an audience not just to respond emotionally but to identify with the writer's point of viewto feel what the writer feels. In this sense, pathos evokes a meaning implicit in the verb 'to suffer'to feel pain imaginatively.... Perhaps the most common way of conveying a pathetic appeal is through narrative or story, which can turn the abstractions of logic into something palpable and present. The values, beliefs, and understandings of the writer are implicit in the story and conveyed imaginatively to the reader. Pathos thus refers to both the emotional and the imaginative impact of the message on an audience, the power with which the writer's message moves the audience to decision or action.
[The above text drawn verbatim from Ramage, John D. and John C. Bean. Writing Arguments. 4th Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, 8182.]