This is an anecdote but pertinent.
Today my students convinced me to be part of a fund-raiser in which I will get a pie thrown in my face. I had no intention of doing this (contact lenses and other excuses). However, they used rhetoric skills, and they won. (We've been working on persuasive techniques). They appealed to logos - "You should Mrs. Kelley. It's for a good cause." They appealed to ethos - "The Cancer Society will make sure the money goes to the right places." They appealed to pathos - "My cousin has cancer. You'll be helping people like her." They even used the bandwagon approach: "Other teachers are doing it, too," and they had an answer for my contact lens problem - "Wear goggles." I'll be off to Wal Mart soon to buy goggles and shampoo.
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