3.8 Practice Persuasion

The rhetoric method that I feel would be most effective to persuade a supervisor to choose my team to conduct the new sales campaign at a new car dealership would be logos. This would be because I will present the supervisor with evidence and reasoning behind what my team has been able to present in our other tasks. When presenting someone with facts or statistics, they are generally more able to see your point of view than if you were to present them with a quick whitted sales pitch about your charecter, or trying to tie to their emotions. It is also very difficult to grab someones emotions to get them to choose you for a specific job or task, because you normally do not know who you will be presenting to, and what will grab their attention.


I feel that the rhetoric method that would have the least amount of impact on the projected audince (the supervisor) would be pathos. This is because if you want to grab someones attention it is more difficult to pull at their emotions, especially if they are a top executive in a company, because they know what people are up to, and they can stomp on your emotions by not giving you the position before you even have a chance to explain yourself.


Ethos would be the most effective in a situation where you are trying to explain to the audience the experience you have in the arena. For example, before you go in for an elective procedure at a hospital or doctors office you get the chance to ask the doctor questions, and you also get the chance to ask the doctor specific questions about the procedures, past results, and how many, or how long he has been providing those types of surgeries. You would do this so that you would feel comfortable, and the doctor would apeal to your ethos so that he can get you to feel comfortable with him doing the procedure.