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Who is Sally Ride?
The art of persuading an audience with language through speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric/rhetorical appeals?
An effective model for analyzing and developing arguments.
What is the Toulmin Model of Argumentation?
We are incredibly vulnerable to the whims of our own galaxy. A single, large asteroid could take us out forever. To survive we have to reach beyond the home planet. Think what a tragedy it would be if all that humans have accomplished were suddenly obliterated.
Who is Stephen Petranek?
Rhetoric is important because it can help writers or speakers to communicate effectively with an audience to present an argument in such a way that people can logically follow and come to the same conclusion as us about a given topic.
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I own Space X and believe we will colonize Mars by the year 2025.
Who is Elon Musk?
This appeal can trigger any kind of emotions in an audience ranging from sadness to anger. These appeals are particularly effective in terms of connecting with the audience, and giving the message a personal and relatable touch.
What is pathos?
This is what you are arguing.
What is a claim?
We discovered that Mars produces methane levels of gas that increases during summer months and decreases in the winter.
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Who is NASA?
Mars is 250 million miles away and it will take us eight months to get there -- 360 days.
False.
What is Mars is 250 million miles away and it will take us eight months to get there -- 240 days.
We co-authored and wrote "The Mars Challenge."
Who is Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway and Tina Overton?
This appeals to an audience's logic and reasoning. This appeal would contain data, facts, graphs, and an almost academic or scientific level of logic and reason.
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What is logos?
This is the data, “facts,” support or reasoning of the argument.
What are grounds/evidence?
I believe we will land on Mars by 2025.
Who is Elon Musk?
Understanding the fundamental components of an argument using Toulmin’s model will help you effectively understand, criticize, and evaluate arguments you encounter.
True.
I believe your kids might live on Mars someday.
Who is Stephen Petranek?
This appeal is used to convince an audience by offering reliability, honesty, and credibility.
What is ethos?
Any additional support of the warrant. In many cases, the warrant is implied, and therefore the ________ provides support for the warrant by giving a specific example that justifies the warrant.
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What is backing?
Developed the machine, Moxie. This machine is a "reverse fuel cell" essentially, that sucks in the Martian atmosphere and pumps out oxygen.
Who is Michael Hecht from MIT?
Mars is an incredibly hot planet.
False.
Mars is an incredibly cold planet because it has a very thin atmosphere.
I became the first American woman to go into space, blasting off onboard the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission.
Who is Sally Ride?
This situational and is used differently according to the audience, speaker, and message.
What is rhetoric?
The explanations that connect to the parts of the argument such as values, principles, assumptions, or general rules.
What are warrants?
If Space X colonizes Mars, we won't recognize any international laws but instead we will make our own rules for living on the Red Planet.
Elon Musk.
The curiosity rover 2012 landed on Mars Gale Crater to gather data to help scientists determine what is needed to make the planet habitable for human exploration.
True.
Who is the curiosity rover 2012?