The ability to properly use such tools of presenting information as logos, pathos and ethos is essential in academic research writing. The main ideas of scholarly articles are best supported by the balanced combination of all three ingredients of persuasion. The analysis of “An Argument in Favor of Capital Punishment” provides the multiple evidence of the effective implementation of ethos, pathos and logos supported the argumentation of the main idea and persuade reader to formulate the particular opinion regarding the issue of capital punishment (Jowett, O’Donnell 62).
Ethos is the ethical appeal that relates to the definition ...