In Chapter 6 of Thank You for Arguing, more useful tips and tricks to winning over an audience was given. To do this, you must make the audience receptive and attentive to the point you are trying to make. The audience must like and trust the rhetor for the most part.
According to Heinrichs, there are 3 traits of persuasive leadership. They include virtue, practical wisdom, and disinterest. Now these things all sound great, but what do they really mean and how can we use them to our advantage. Based on this chapter I learned that virtue means embody the values of your audience, and different settings have a major impact on the audiences values. Practical wisdom is appearing to know the right thing to do with different occasions. Disinterest is the lack of bias in what you are trying to persuade and showing care towards the audiences interests. Other ways to pump up your virtue is to brag, get a witness to brag for you, reveal a tactical flaw, and switch sides if the argument is doomed against you. All these ideas for arguing are great tools that can make any group of people listen and believe what you have to stay. This class is really teaching us a lot about giving great speeches as well, and I think it will become quite handy someday for many of us with future classes and careers.
I agree. I think the teaching of rhetoric is helpful in most all situations. Persuasion is a tool that is useful and almost necessary if you really want to reach to your audience. Being attentive and audience centered is crucial when making a point.
ReplyDeleteI agree that all three of these are important to have a good argument. You can see many of these when hear about speeches different people have made. Many times there are people whose job is specifically to show all the good someone has done or to bring up all the knowkedge they know.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the importance of knowing the three different strategies that are commonly associated with the use of ethos. It is important to be conscience and aware of what ethos is and when the rhetor is using it so that you are not easily manipulated and so that you can make choices for yourself based off of your own previous knowledge. I also agree with you when you say that virtue, practical wisdom, and disinterest can be very useful tools when arguing.
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