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

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. My name is James I am currently attending Camino Nuevo Highschool.I am determined to learn what i can as a student even thought sometimes things gets tough. Being a student is really hard if you dont put your effort into it but with hard work and determination it could get you to places you would never even think of. I am a student myself so i know how hard it is to do your homework by staying up all night even though sometimes I dont even get it but it doesnt mean u cant try your best to figure it out. Even though we cant figure something out, it doesnt mean we cant ask any of our teachers for help in the classroom while doing class work or so.

My topic is about the rhetoric of classrooms. This means the way how people talk in a classroom and how it is unique. In a classroom we cant simply say anything we want because we are there to learn and not to fool around. We want a classroom to be a learning environment for everyone so that we could learn easily. Teachers set some boundaries of how we should behave in a class so that we could make it a good learning environment. Teachers might sometimes talk to you in a different way when they are outside of the classroom but when it is school time you somtimes dont know what they are talking about.

We will learn all of these things in the process so that we would understand why we have to act or talk differently in a classroom than we do outside. Most likely in a classroom there are certain boundaries we should keep in mind and we will also be learning that in the process. Everything could go differently in a classroom depends how their rules are made and how the students obey in those rules. Being in a classroom could be tough but learning on the process wouldnt hurt.