Definition Proposal

Chris Behr

02/23/11

Assignment #3 Proposal

1.      I will be defining what it means to be a leader.  I think that many people believe that a leader is simply someone that is in charge of others, but it is much more than that.

2.      I am in the Air Force ROTC program here at Penn State, and the Air Force stresses strong leadership in every aspect of your life.  Immediately after graduation I will be “in charge” of roughly 100 people.  But I do not believe that the day that I graduate from college, I will be a leader.  I need to learn from those around me, both superiors and inferiors, what it means to be a leader.

3.      My audience will be anyone looking to take on positions of leadership in their life.  Every person of society should have a quality set of leadership skills.  I want to persuade everyone to learn how to lead now to excel in the future.

4.      I will use a dictionary definition of what a leader is, and then I will go into what I have learned in my life to be a leader giving personal examples of leaders in my life.  I may pull some quotes from my Air Force book as well as they seem to drive home this point well.

5.      I will use pathos in my stories about leaders in my life.  I will use logos in saying what a leader is and what a leader does. And I will use ethos to show how morals and values come into leadership.