Landsman Ethical Appeal

In the passage Confronting the Racism of Low Expectations by, Julie Landsman, engaged with her audience by using ethical appeal, also known as ethos. Ethical appeal is appealing to an audience based on your credibility, reliability, experience, and evenhandness. This passage was about how Caucasians would take away the learning education from other races because they did not think they were as smart. Julie Landsman used ethical appeal in her writing, by writing about her opinion, but then backing it up with evidence. Landsman was also a teacher, so she has some evidence of seeing students and teachers being fair to the Caucasians but not to other races. Landsman’s evidence showed up by using what people said to her, what she witnessed while