Friday, September 21, 2012

Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis Brainstorming

Intro
Thesis: The ProActiv homepage effectively uses a combination of pictures, videos and text in order to target the customer's emotion, appeal to their logical reasoning and win them over with the authority of the experts.

1. Logos {Logical Appeal}
a.Experts
  • We should invest all of our trust/money into them (why?)
b.Use of phrases/wording
  • "If you use ProActiv.. THEN" typical 'logos'
  • Use of statistics to back up phrases "If you use ProActiv.. Then your acne will go away like millions of other satisfied customers"
2. Ethos {Honesty/Authority of the Speaker}

a.Guthy-Renker LLC (company)
  • Who they are (background)
  • How ProActiv came about
  • Credibility

b.Actual users
  • Examples of them (video)
  • Credibility
c. Celebrities
  • Examples of them
  • Credibility (are they actually credibile?)
3. Pathos (Emotional Appeal)

a.Peer Pressure
  • Videos/Pictures show to be desirable = no acne
  • Typical 'all my friends have it'
b. Stories
  • Struggle - we all can relate
  • Success - We all want that
c. Celebrities
  • We want to be like our favorite stars
  • The people chosen to be in commercials (age, popularity,etc)


1 comment:

  1. You have a very good outline written! I like the way you set it up, and I like all of your subtopics for ethos, logos and pathos. You're outline is very detailed which will make it very easy for you to write your paper! Your thesis does a good job of telling the reader what will be coming in the rest of the paper! Nice job.

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