• Length: 750-words to 1000-words in length; 5 paragraphs. Focus on fully developing and explaining your ideas.
Instructions:
• In your essay, you will compare the two texts by Collis and Champion by answering and explaining: Which of the two texts do you find most persuasive based on its use of logos, pathos, and ethos and why?
Essay Structure: The essay structure below is the format that your essay MUST follow: Introduction: Establish your topic with a clear topic sentence as your first sentence; briefly describe what you will be explaining and arguing in your three paragraphs; sum up your argument with a clear, direct thesis statement explaining your argumentative position.
Thesis Statement Examples:
1. “Despite C.P. Champion’s strong objections, Stephen Collis’ thesis is more persuasive, due to the support of historically-based logos examples, compelling and personal pathos examples, and trustworthy and authoritative ethos examples.”
2. “While Stephen Collis’ proposal is interesting, C.P. Champion’s thesis is more persuasive due to the support of statistical logos examples, strongly-felt pathos examples, and populist ethos examples.”
First Paragraph: Compare, using at least two grammatically-integrated direct quotes from the texts as your evidence, the persuasiveness of two logos examples (facts, data, statistics, true anecdotal evidence): one from Stephen Collis and one from C.P. Champion, which they use to support their respective thesis. Explain why one author’s logos example is more persuasive than the other, and why it contributes to the overall persuasiveness of their essay. Second Paragraph: Compare, using at least two grammatically-integrated direct quotes from the texts as your evidence, the persuasiveness of two pathos examples (beliefs, values, ideals, emotions): one from Stephen Collis and one from C.P. Champion, which they use to support their respective thesis. Explain why one author’s pathos example is more persuasive than the other, and why it contributes to the overall persuasiveness of their essay.
Third Paragraph: Compare, using at least two grammatically-integrated direct quotes from the texts as your evidence, the persuasiveness of two ethos examples (personal expertise and/or connection to topic; other experts’ opinions and evidence about topic): one from Stephen Collis and one from C.P. Champion, which they use to support their respective thesis. Explain why one author’s ethos example is more persuasive than the other, and why it contributes to the overall persuasiveness of their essay.
Conclusion: Topic Sentence; restate thesis in concluding language; briefly summarize the points you made in your body paragraphs; concluding sentence.
Formatting Guidelines:
1. Write 5 complete paragraphs for a total of 750-1000 words.
2. Identify the title of texts and authors by their full name in your introduction paragraph. Put the texts’ titles in quotation marks. Subsequently, you do not have to refer to the full title, and you can refer to the author by their last name only.
3. Give accurate examples in the form of direct quotes from your chosen essay to clearly and directly support your claims.
4. Integrate your quotes grammatically into your sentence structure.
5. Provide in-text citations that are correctly formatted according to your chosen citation style.
6. Format your document correctly according to your chosen citation style (APA, MLA, etc.).
Grading Consideration:
• Formatting and instructions are followed correctly.
• Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure/syntax are correct and coherent.
• Use an academic, formal, grammatically-correct style of writing.
• Follow the essay writing conventions we have used in our assignments. Make your points of support and your thesis clear, and utilize topic, support, transition, and concluding sentences as needed.
