The First Flyers

WALT: Analyse text to identify examples of ethos, pathos and logos.

Persuasive Reading Analysis:

Take another look at the persuasive piece of reading/ writing.

What strategies does the author use to try to persuade you?

Below are strategies writers often use for this form of writing.  Read through each

strategy and decide whether the author used that strategy by writing yes or no in the second column. If you write yes, then explain how the author used that strategy.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first people to invent a plane.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or   facts to support the argument	Yes	They created models so that they can look at it and gather the right pieces to make a plane.  The Wright brothers, studied the work of others and made modifications where they thought they were needed to enhance their own models.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	No
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	The brothers were both engineers and therefore respected by other engineers but also met with some ridicule. Their expertise was used to help raise funds for their invention/s i.e. they fixed planes.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	No