Response to Aaron's Rhetoric Blog

I completely agree with Aaron when he says that Logos is the main form of rhetoric when it comes to engineering. Engineering deals with facts and things that can be proven. This is a form of logos. However, I don't believe that this is the only form. I feel that another more subtle type of rhetoric used in engineering is Ethos. While this seems strange at first, I think that ethos can play a huge role when you get into the "real world" One example being that you are going to think more highly of a paper written by someone with a PhD than one written by someone taking classes for their Bachelors. Or someone in a company who has worked there for a long time will have a larger impact than someone who just started.