Inside the classroom

Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about rhetoric in classrooms and the different kinds of ways they apply in there. 1st of all, we know that rhetoric is a device to persuade the speaker's audience and we know that there are 3 elements that are called ethos, pathos and logos that makes up rhetoric. Having that said, is there another way we could persuade a person not just in writing or talking? Well today, I had learned something new about rhetoric that could persuade people in a different level and it is using visual rhetoric. Visual rhetoric is also a type of persuasion but using images such as still or moving photographs, graphics, animation, etc.

Images can appeal to the viewer's logos, ethos, and pathos, depending on what the image symbolizes. One way the image can appeal to the viewer's pathos is having a picture of a dirty, hungry, dog and the topic is about evolution, when the dominant traits win. Basically it will show that this dirty, hungry, dog doesnt have the dominant trait to look for food, not like the other street dogs. This could appeal to pathos because it will make the viewer feel sad about the image. Visual rhetoric can also appeal to logos by showing the exact facts. Instead of just saying 2000 people or so died in a certain year, you could show a graph that specifically demonstrates your facts. Ethos can be used in visual rhetoric by showing a graph or link to your source as evidence to prove that homework gives students stress. (Just an Example) Maybe, you could say that homework gives you stress, but teachers will think that you are just saying it to get away. By giving a certain source or image like "According to scientific reasearch, 55% of the studenrs who gets a lot of homework are mostly stressed." This automatically raises your ethos and people would most likely believe you.

Ethos, Pathos and Logos could be used in the classroom in many ways. Visual rhetoric could also be used in a classroom by teacher themselves. They use images so that we could have a visualization of how the topic will be like and a better understanding about the topic itself.

Got info in http://www.auburn.edu/~smitjes/theory.htm