Week 2 Overview

This week we learned about rhetorical appeals such as logos, pathos and ethos. These are used a lot in persuasion, such as billboards we see and commercials. Logos appeal to reasoning, pathos attempts to put the audience in a particular emotional state, and ethos appeal to authority or character. We also learned about logical fallacies and the exaggerated use of pathos and ethos. This week I also got to spend time with the class in the library and learned about how to use the library search to find articles and books and also got to pick out my topic for the project. Overall I feel good about the project and where I am starting at with my topic. I choose animal abuse in Charlotte because it is something that really means a lot to me and something I can put up a good argument with. I am very excited to start more of the research on my topic and see where it takes me with me research paper.  I was nervous at first because I didn't know where or how to start finding information about my topic but after the library class today I feel a lot better and am now looking forward to getting started.