An Analysis of the Rhetorical Relationship

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heavily on the ethical and logical arguments, from which emotions stem. The appeal of ethos or ethics, as referred to earlier is important to every arguments success because it builds on the writer’s authority and creditability. One of Barons’ (2009) most ethical appeals is found in chapter 9: Everyone’s an Author, where he admits to researching and setting up a blog:
When I began this section on blogging over a year ago, I didn’t have a blog. Now I do: the Web of Language is not a confessional blog, but one devoted to discussions of language policy. I began to blog simply as a way to find out how blogs work, so that I could write about them. But the activity became so compelling that I continued writing the blog itself, and I’ll even be teaching a new course in which students study language policy by blogging on the subject. (p. 165)
In this passage Baron does a phenomenal job covering every key aspect of the ethical appeal. In the first part of the passage he ...

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blogs” (Baron 165)? Despite this claim, Baron does demonstrate being confident enough to integrate blogging into a class which assures his audience that he is indeed a trustworthy source, ultimately leaving little room for them to question his authority.
Another important rhetorical appeal that Baron presents is logo or logical as referred to earlier. A logical appeal is an argument that appeals to reason. The use of facts and statistics are both key elements of this appeal (Lunsford 40). In Chapter 11: The Dark Side of the Web, Baron presents a good argument about Chinese internet censorship which represents a good example of a logical appeal. The very first statistic he mentions ...

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