About This Website:
This website was created by four students at Michigan State University for a WRA 260: Rhetoric, Persuasion and Culture class during fall semester of 2013. The assignment was to: 1) choose a rhetorical strategy (in this case, pathos); 2) research two cultures and how they use the rhetorical strategy; 3) interview members of those cultures about their experiences with the rhetorical strategy; and 4) compile our findings in a website that would be accessible for our audience.
This website is devoted to exploring how student organizations use pathos (emotion) as a rhetorical technique to communicate with an audience. The two organizations highlighted in this website are the MSU student chapters of Greenpeace and ONE LIFE. Greenpeace is a worldwide organization that spreads environmental awareness and organizes nonviolent activism events to recruit new members and spread this message. At MSU, the Greenpeace chapter is focused on convincing the university's administration to divest from fossil fuels as the main energy source on campus and use 'green' energy instead. ONE LIFE is a non-profit organization that raises money for other organizations through various events. The organization is still fairly new to MSU, but has already raised significant funds for charities such as Keep a Child Alive and Charity Water.
This website was designed with college students in mind. We hope that our site may prove useful for students who wish to learn more about pathos and the ways that student organizations use this rhetorical strategy. The information on this website was researched and assembled with the intent to educate viewers on pathos, its effectiveness within groups of people, and give examples of how it is used.
This website is devoted to exploring how student organizations use pathos (emotion) as a rhetorical technique to communicate with an audience. The two organizations highlighted in this website are the MSU student chapters of Greenpeace and ONE LIFE. Greenpeace is a worldwide organization that spreads environmental awareness and organizes nonviolent activism events to recruit new members and spread this message. At MSU, the Greenpeace chapter is focused on convincing the university's administration to divest from fossil fuels as the main energy source on campus and use 'green' energy instead. ONE LIFE is a non-profit organization that raises money for other organizations through various events. The organization is still fairly new to MSU, but has already raised significant funds for charities such as Keep a Child Alive and Charity Water.
This website was designed with college students in mind. We hope that our site may prove useful for students who wish to learn more about pathos and the ways that student organizations use this rhetorical strategy. The information on this website was researched and assembled with the intent to educate viewers on pathos, its effectiveness within groups of people, and give examples of how it is used.