Analysis

In my community blog post I wrote about vaccinating your children not only for their safety and well being but for that of everyone else as well. In that post I felt like I wrote to all three appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos. I wrote to all three because the topic I wrote about allowed me to do so. I was able to make a logical appeal, an emotional appeal, and a credible appeal to readers. Not all issues may allow for a writer to do so but I chose to take full advantage of having all three available to me. In all honesty if you're trying connect with readers I do believe that it's best to make an appeal on all three levels for your reader because it makes a stronger connection. However, if I were to rank the three my list would go: pathos, ethos, logos. In my opinion all three are important however if you can make an appeal to a reader's values, beliefs, and emotions I feel you can make your strongest connection there.