In Class Free Write: Rhetorical Thinking Unit 2

Rhetorical thinking differs from just simply thinking in many ways. In chapter 5 of our book it looks at what it means to think rhetorically. Here is my view on thinking rhetorically. I believe that this way of thinking looks at and exposes ideas. There is no one right way to think rhetorically but there are some questions that you could ask about a subject or an idea to think about it rhetorically. You could ask some questions that were brought up in the book like; "What is the purpose of this argument?" or "How does it try to make the write or creator seem trustworthy?" I think that both of these questions make great arguments in exploring an idea or a subject. Thinking rhetorically with the first question I brought up would be simple in my opinion. Simply questioning the purpose of an argument would lead to a justification or an answer given by someone else or by yourself. Rhetorically, both of these questions lead to arguments of ethos, pathos, and logos. A pathos argument with rhetorical thinking in mind makes a reader or someone you are arguing with think about your argument from the heart because it contains strong emotional appeal.