Argumentative Essay: Rough Draft

Dwayne Ellis

English 112

Essay 3: Rough Draft

4/9/14

Damn Southern..

            Paint this picture. Chilly November’s day and there’s only about 38 days left of football and the season is finally over.  Your head coach then gets into an absolute shouting match with another coach, and I don’t mean any ordinary shouting match, I’m talking a fight nearly breaks out, punches thrown, explicate vocabulary is exchanged… all the good stuff. How would you react? Well, in short, I laughed. This incident just made it even more obvious that the team and program I played for was even more of a joke than I had already grown to feel it was.

            I’m sure if you asked the administration, they’d tell you otherwise, but athletics, especially football, are the face of almost all universities. Athletics are what people pride themselves most about in their attendance to their university, whether they’re a player or just a regular, supportive fan. To keep it simple, Southern Connecticut athletics are on the steady decline and that would just be pointing out the obvious. Once again, I’m sure if you asked the administration, they’d hand you the history books and tell you about the storied tradition of Southern Connecticut sports. That’s fine and all, but my main focus is the football program. I hate to be repetitive, but supporters (especially the Athletic Administration), would reach deep into the archives and hand you some statistics backing their claim of a “storied tradition in Division 2 athletics.” And that’s when I reply simply with, “Do past victories count now?”

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Logos- Correlates to statistics, facts, experimental results, and concrete evidence that is used to validate the claim that writer is making in order to back his or her argument up.

Pathos- The emotional feel and approach the writer takes to his piece. It seems like a part that wouldn’t play to key of a role in good argumentative writing, but with a strong sense of emotion for both sides of the argument plays a strong role to the reader. It gives off the impression that their writer is considerate and understanding of both view but also stands by their point of view strongly.

Ethos directly relates to ethics and the fact of writer being ethical in his or her writing. The writing has gone about establishing a strong sense of trust and credibility in the points her or she is trying to prove.

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The past week in class has stressed heavily on arguments, and we all know that I live for a good argument.  We finished up our autobiographical essays and began to take a look at the logical fallacies that appear in an argumentative essay and the three main appeals that strike a reader in these such essays; logos, pathos, and ethos.

            The three appeals are important because they credit and pretty much validate the writer of the piece. Logos comes directly from term logic. Logos correlates to statistics, facts, experimental results, and concrete evidence that is used to validate the claim that writer is making in order to back his or her argument up. Pathos is the emotional feel and approach the writer takes to his piece. It seems like a part that wouldn’t play to key of a role in good argumentative writing, but with a strong sense of emotion for both sides of the argument plays a strong role to the reader. It gives off the impression that their writer is considerate and understanding of both view but also stands by their point of view strongly. Ethos directly relates to ethics and the fact of writer being ethical in his or her writing. Is your writer trustworthy and credible? These are important factors, especially if someone is trying to convince you of a specific point.

            Arguing is perhaps my favorite thing to do in a classroom, so I highly look forward to writing this argumentative paper. I will make it a strong point to find the write use of ethos, pathos, and logos. The one thing I want to do is establish a credible and believable paper to convey my points strongly.