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- Title
Morality, Trust, and Illusion: Ethos as Relationship.
- Authors
Weresh, Melissa H.
- Abstract
The article offers information on how to maintain ethos or character, which reflects credibility, in legal writing. It mentions the influence of the organizational and stylistic aspects of a document on building the relationship between an advocate and the reader, which demonstrate ethos. It discusses the use of logos, pathos, and ethos as foundations of persuasion in legal writing and gives particular focus on the appeal of ethos, its rhetoric, and organizational strategies to convey ethos. It mentions that the said organizational strategies include priming, syllogism and enthymeme, and storytelling and narrative.
- Subjects
LEGAL composition; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; ETHOS (Rhetoric); PATHOS; PERSUASION (Rhetoric); ORGANIZATIONAL aims &; objectives; SYLLOGISM; ENTHYMEME (Logic)
- Publication
Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD, 2012, Vol 9, p229
- ISSN
1550-0950
- Publication type
Article