Monday, January 21, 2013

Old work: Ethos, Pathos, Logos


For my English 101 course, one of our assignments was to analysis a news paper article. The article that I chose to analysis was called “The Science of Siblings” written by Jeffery Kluger. When writing about the article I talked about what the article’s purpose was, the audience in which article was aiming at, and what studies were used in the article to make their points valid.
In my article I stuck with primarily Ethos to get my point across to my readers. When talking about the studies the article used to draw their points, I used the names and work places of people that took part in the studies. I talked about these people to show that the article I was analyzing was credible and that the studies where tested  by professionals that the reader could trust in.
In my article I also used a small amount of Logos while talking about why someone would want to read about the articles and the studies talking about in it. By using simple logic I was able to guess what the target audience of the article was and why they would want to read the article.
While I used Ethos and Logos in my analysis of this article I did not use Pathos in my assignment. Pathos is meant to draw on the feelings of a person and while writing my analysis I did not do that. I stuck mainly with things within the original article that could make my assignment credible and logical.

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