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Ideas for Visual Argument

Which Visual Argument Assignment will you be perusing?

Once you have decided which Visual Argument assignment you

are going to do, answer the following questions:
1. What is the purpose of your Visual Argument?
The purpose of my visual argument is the abuse
consumption of supplements in athletes.
2. What will you be advocating for in your Visual Argument?
I will be advocating the positive effects and negative effects
in consuming supplements.
3. Who is the target audience for your Visual Argument?
The target audience of my visual argument are all athletes,
in college, high school, bodybuilders, weightlifters and
sprinters.
4. How will you appeal to the rhetorical issue of Ethos in your
Visual Argument?
I will appeal to the rhetorical issue of Ethos in my visual
argument by providing two different substances from two
different athletes. The first one with positive results in

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consuming supplements and the second athlete not

consuming supplements.
5. How will you appeal to the rhetorical issue of Logos in your
Visual Argument?
I will appeal to the rhetorical issue of Logos in my visual
argument by providing supporting feedback from my
sources of the consequences athletes have gone through
consuming supplements and if athletes should continue to
take supplements.
6. How will you appeal to the rhetorical issue of Pathos in your
Visual Argument?
I will appeal to the rhetorical issue of Pathos in my Visual
Argument by providing the audience with an athlete picking
a weight, which can explain an emotion of intensity and
motivation and the magic that supplements provide you
with. I will also be providing the audience with an athlete
that is consuming a supplement which can lead to an
emotion of taste but does not really know what he is
consuming which can lead to a consequence. The audience
can see this as a learning emotion like I didnt kow that

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or like it will make them double think about what they are
consuming and be more curious about it.