#argumentative approaches

 This unit's readings have made me consider which argumentative approach I tend to use. Overall, I feel that I gravitate towards the logos approach most often; seeing as, prior to this unit, I viewed it as the most persuasive regardless of the topic at hand. However, I now realize that the argumentative approach's effectiveness is dependent more on the author's own rhetoric skills rather than entirely on how they choose to present their stance. This is most prevalently shown in Tan's Mother Tongue. In this reading, Tan is able to present global issues such as discrimination towards immigrants who struggle with learning proper English, and successfully persuade her readers to sympathize with her views through the emotional pathos approach by describing both her and her mother's plights in regards to the aforementioned discrimination. This serves to further show that the writer or speaker's rhetoric skills along with the content being present should be the determining factors in what argumentative approach is chosen rather than simply viewing one approach as a perfect solution to reach the desired end of each argument.