Learning Target:
We will add appositive phrases to our draft of our speech in order to strengthen our appeal to ethos.
Open this Quick appositive phrase practice and check your own understanding.
Credibility and Ethos
Put the writer's credentials in an appositive phrase.
Credentials are why you should believe what they say or why your should trust them.
It can be education.
It can be experience.
It can be the person's job.
- You are adding the CREDENTIALS to your sources from your research.
- So when you cite an author, you should add what makes him or her credible.
- If you credible website has no author, you should add what makes the website credible. Discuss the publisher for example.
Example:
David Katz, M.D., the director of the Yale Prevention Research Center, claims that Americans are suffering from a major addition to exaggeration and news scandals.
The appositive phrase in RED shows the read why we should trust David Katz, M.D.'s information. Therefore, the appositive phrase used here can strengthen your appeal to appeal to ethos because you are showing that you are getting information from credible sources.
David Katz, M.D., the director of the Yale Prevention Research Center, claims that Americans are suffering from a major addition to exaggeration and news scandals.
The appositive phrase in RED shows the read why we should trust David Katz, M.D.'s information. Therefore, the appositive phrase used here can strengthen your appeal to appeal to ethos because you are showing that you are getting information from credible sources.
RUBRIC for GROUP SPEECHES
Work on your speech script making sure that you are citing that credible evidence. I will be coming by each group. I want to see TWO examples of correct appositive phrases used. This is the expectation for your work today. Call me over when you have the two done so I can check you off and give you your participation points.