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| Gaining credibility with your reader. |
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| Evoking emotion in your reader. |
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| Appealing to the logic of your reader. |
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| Appealing to your reader's sense of timeliness; mainly, reading your work "in the right place, at the right time." |
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| How can you gain credibility with your reader? |
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| By mentioning your education, expertise, or providing other evidence that you are a reliable source of information. |
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| Give three or more examples of ways to make your reader feel emotion. |
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Your answer should cite the situations in which you would use different techniques.
Examples including emotionally charged words (happy, grieved, elated, ect) or descriptions (the conditions of a dog pound) are valid answers to this question. |
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| How can you appeal to your reader's sense of logic? |
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You must provide evidence of your position to convince your reader that your view is logical and makes sense.
Facts and statistics are two good ways of accomplishing this. |
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| How can you convince your reader that what you have written is important right now? |
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| This depends on the subject. A history paper can seem more relevant when parallels are drawn between past and current events. |
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