Rhetorical Analysis: How Parents Struggle To Share Social Media
Before this assignment, I didn’t have a lot of knowledge on dissecting a source. Understanding the structure of a piece of writing can help you understand the writing deeper than just what the words are saying. Using the rhetorical analysis as an example, we were asked to analyze a source using ethos, logos and pathos to examine its credibility. Through this process, I received a better understanding of how structure can play a role in persuading an audience. Logos is the idea of using statistics and anecdotes to appeal to an audience’s rational and logical mindset. In Heather Kelly’s article, “How teens, parents struggle to share social media”, I realized that writers strategically place these techniques to get the best positive reaction
from their readers. In my analysis, I realized that she begins with the anecdote about a girl named Carly to create a personal connection with her audience. She strategically places fact like statements and Carly’s testimony in between the facts from the Pew study to. This adds more power to the statements since they are following facts from a scientific study to make her arguments more powerful, deceiving readers into reading them as facts. Recognizing how a writer is able to manipulate persuasive techniques is important because that can help identify how credible their argument is. If there is an imbalance of techniques that may be a hint. As I was identifying possible sources for my paper, I made sure to remember this. Ethos was a good identifier before I read the article. It helped to detect how credible a writer or website was. I tried to not be easily persuaded and analyzed how well they argued their point. In my paper, I tried to do the same. I made a conscious effort to evenly distribute the techniques in order for my essay’s structure to be effective. However, by the end I noticed used more of the logos and ethos techniques than I used pathos, which I was okay with because over using pathos weakens the argument.
from their readers. In my analysis, I realized that she begins with the anecdote about a girl named Carly to create a personal connection with her audience. She strategically places fact like statements and Carly’s testimony in between the facts from the Pew study to. This adds more power to the statements since they are following facts from a scientific study to make her arguments more powerful, deceiving readers into reading them as facts. Recognizing how a writer is able to manipulate persuasive techniques is important because that can help identify how credible their argument is. If there is an imbalance of techniques that may be a hint. As I was identifying possible sources for my paper, I made sure to remember this. Ethos was a good identifier before I read the article. It helped to detect how credible a writer or website was. I tried to not be easily persuaded and analyzed how well they argued their point. In my paper, I tried to do the same. I made a conscious effort to evenly distribute the techniques in order for my essay’s structure to be effective. However, by the end I noticed used more of the logos and ethos techniques than I used pathos, which I was okay with because over using pathos weakens the argument.