Week 13, Question 3

In Chapter 15, I particularly thought the section on Using Evidence Effectively was interesting and very important.  In giving speeches, especially persuasive ones, it is going to be vital in your speech that you use your evidence correctly or it is likely that you will be very unsuccessful, and probably will loose your audience early on.  In addition, it talked about logic.  This, to me, was the 'common sense' part.  In giving your speech, and presenting your argument/evidence, I believe it would be very important that all of your evidence made 'logical' sense.  If your audience can't wrap their heads around what your presenting about and it just doesn't 'make sense' then you are headed for disaster.  In my personal opinion, I think that the logos type of appeal would be most successful with ethos and pathos being right behind.  I don't think I would ever use the mythos type, it just doesn't seem like my style.  If someone (an audience) is going to be persuaded, I believe that logic, emotion, and current statistics will make a much more likely case.  I know if I were the audience, I would prefer some information that appealed to my brain logic as well as an emotional personal story or current statistics that would force me to want to act immediately.  In my persuasive speech, since my topic is quite an epidemic, I will definitely be using emotion and statistics to persuade my classmates.  This will also tie into the logical part of their brain because it will 'make sense' to everyone and they will be able to visualize the problem very quickly and with little effort