RA

I am analysing the managers of summer sales in regards to selling satilite dishes.

I had a conversation this week that involved a variety of rhetorical techniques. First they began by trying to be really good friends, really interested in what I was doing. This was followed by a flood of complements. It seemed very fake to me. The new found friend then inquired about what my plans were for the next summer. I laughed and said that I had just finished this summer and wasn't quite mapped out that far. They then began to introduce me to the idea of selling satilites in Chicago.

From this point already, I have seen the relationship being developed as "peer." The compliments were used to apeal to my ego, trying to win me over. But now they take a different stance. They begin to tell me about all the possibilities of how much money I can actually earn. They told me that their friend make around 90 thousand dollars in just a few months. This was an appeal to the logic. What they didn't tell me, was how much they would make off of me if I worked for them. I just happened to know that on my own. Their overall arguement was that working for them would be the best thing I could do in the summer because it would make me the most money possible. It was slightly persuasive. I did need the money, so I was definitly fitting in their audience. I was simply shocked at how easily it was to detect the use of rhetoric in these peoples arguements. It was just oosing with usages of ethos, pathos and logos.