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Note how each of the areas potentially affects the others:
An illogical argument may move us emotionally, but only in the sense that it makes us angry with the author for wasting our time.
An overwhelming emotional argument may make us feel that the author is relying exclusively on emotions rather than offering solid reasoning.
Finally, if an argument contains only fact and no emotional appeal, we may simply get bored.
RHETORICAL TRIANGLE
The triangle image represents the balance of all three appeals that a writer should use for an effective argument. The appeals are equally important when developing an argument and too much of one is likely to produce an argument either those readers will find unconvincing or that will cause them to stop reading.
Or they might want you to use the SOAPSTone Method to analyze a text. Here's a graphic organizer to help!
From cloudfront.net
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