Chapter 3 Reading

After reading chapter 3 I could really relate to guideline three. It states "Define your persuasive goal: Analyze your reader's attitudes." The book seems to be right on when it says that persuasiveness is the second of the two essential on the job writing styles and that persuasiveness is present in every communication at work. I completely agree. When I write some sort of communication at work I am usually trying to persuade the reader into doing something. Most commonly it is an action. Things brings me to what we talked about in class, rhetoric. I don't think I fully realized how present it is in my career until we broke it down in class. It was interesting to break rhetoric down into the three categories. Rhetoric is very important to be able to recognize and write in a persons professional life. I think that if you can master it, you are probably more likely to get what you want more often and faster than if you didn't. This raises a question. Is ethos, pathos or logos the most common in the workplace?