There are many different ways to persuade your audience to believe or think the way you do. All these ways can be categorized into three appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos is an appeal to reason, pathos is an appeal to emotion, and ethos is an appeal to ethics. Both, Shostak, Seth in “Why Hominids and Space Go Together” which he argues that humans are the better choice in space exploration than robots and Logsdon, John M in “American Patrimony” where he makes the point to say that space exploration should continue, use these appeals to persuade their readers to believe the way they do about their topics. While Logsdon appeals to pathos, I believe Shostak executes his appeals to persuade his audience through all the different appeals was superior to Logsdons. In “Why Hominids and Space Go Together” Shostak using his appeal to logos, which may be a small appearance in the article, to persuade his audience. He states “When it comes to looking for life on Mars, it’s been said that a human explorer could survey that world’s rusty landscape at least 10 times faster than a rover.” While in Logsdon's “American Patrimony” has no formal logic that has to do with any math, philosophy, or computer science. …show more content…
Space is such a unique place with so much to learn about and by using this term it appeals to a reader’s aspiration to explore. Although Logsdon wrote a great article supporting his beliefs on the importance to continue space exploration, Shostak uses all three appeals to advantage to persuade his audience to believe that humans are a much better option in space exploration than robots. At the end of “Why Hominids and Space Go Together” the reader is persuaded to think the way Shostak does about space exploration through all three