WP1

In chapter 3 of our class book, "Everything's an Argument", we learned about arguments based on character, pertaining to ethical appeals; ethos.  Arguments with strong ethical appeal is important because it creates a sense of trust and credibility with the speaker or writer of the argument.  In order to accept the argument we need to respect the writer's authority, integrity and motives. If a writer has a academic or professional title attached to their name, we are more likely to respect their claims. Humor also establishes credibility because it puts the listeners in a state of ease and helps them identify with the speaker.  Reasonable supportive claims also help with establishing credibility.

I finally found a visual argument for my WP1 project.  It is shown above.  Basically the concept of the visual argument is that when you are involved with drugs your social life and extra curricular activities disappear because you value drugs more than anything else.  I really like this visual argument because it is so true and the way they made the ad is so creative and appeals to teenagers because Facebook is so popular these days.  This visual argument establishes the ethos character because it involves humor and shows facts that involving yourself with drugs is not healthy by the picture of the guy's face and the "blank" facebook page.  It gets the "say no to drugs" message out to society in a more appealing way.