Paper A Blog. The Art of Dating

My target audience for paper A entitled The Art of Dating was BYU students who are active about dating and who are searching for something more long term and serious.

WATCO deceiving on the first date on the possibility on engaging in a more serious relationship.

Deceiving on the first date increase your chances on engaging in a more serious relationship because deceiving on the first date helps you appeal to what your date actually wants.

I tried to appeal mainly to ethos however this was very difficult as my audience was wrong for the paper but I started off by defining what I meant by deceiving this gave the audience a better feel for what I meant by deceiving and made them feel more comfortable with actually doing it. I tried to let them know that it was normal and that most people actually deceive on the first date without actually knowing what they were doing; this created a feeling of understanding with audience. I also used personal examples that they could really relate with to gain their respect and attention.

Logos was used as I mentioned the studies that had been conducted and proven that people do actually deceive without knowing it. This brought the audience to my side as they realized that this was something that they shouldn’t feel guilty about because the majority of people do it and it is not considered lying.

In terms of STAR I think the reasoning that I gave was sufficient but did not apply to my audience so it wasn’t really typical for the average BYU student. I regret putting a lot of the information in the paper that I did because it was not really relevant in proving my point that deceiving does lead to a stable relationship it merely proves that people do it and that its normal among males and females.

To be honest after reading the paper over again I realized that it was not the most effective paper and really did not target my audience at all. BYU students tend to be very moral and conscience of there own integrity and honesty so trying to convince them that deceiving on the first date would get them a second date was far fetched and unrealistic.