Rhetorical Analysis On Tom Purcell
Gutierrez Gutierrez Ashanti Gutierrez
Professor Bird
English 101
27 October 2024
The Rhetorical View On Tom Purcell
Before smartphones and social media gave people license to become increasingly rude to each other? Tom Purcell. In the article?Issues & Controversies? it talks about the way people act differently online. This article is about how many people can be rude only because it's online. The author told how one time he had experienced such a thing through email and stated this had been happening before smartphones. In the article "Social Media Means We Can be Rude To A Lot More People", it is effective due to him sharing his own experience. Tom Purcell used pathos and emotion throughout the text. To start off, Purcell talks about …show more content…
Lastly, the author's pattern of development is on the stronger side. He made sure to use ethos, pathos and logos. One of the examples of logos being?Did nothing deserve such abuse and, incidentally, it's typical of misogynistic men to feel threatened by intelligent women.? He is using logos because he had a reason to believe that guy was a misogynistic guy because he felt threatened. Tom uses this method when talking overall about one thing, he states?About 40 writers attended the first happy-hour gathering, which ended up being the last one. As it went, one woman was particularly attractive. He uses a general to specific because he mentioned that about 40 writers went for happy hour, but that he went mainly for ladies. He also uses an example where a woman tested him and painted a picture of how he felt. He uses faulty logic because of how he thinks it was better in the days where you can be rude through email. In conclusion, the author seems to target young to mid-aged people. The author seemed to entertain and inform the audience. He told a story and how this happened to him. He used ethos and pathos mainly to set a picture of how that evening went down and how that experience made him see his fellow
Professor Bird
English 101
27 October 2024
The Rhetorical View On Tom Purcell
Before smartphones and social media gave people license to become increasingly rude to each other? Tom Purcell. In the article?Issues & Controversies? it talks about the way people act differently online. This article is about how many people can be rude only because it's online. The author told how one time he had experienced such a thing through email and stated this had been happening before smartphones. In the article "Social Media Means We Can be Rude To A Lot More People", it is effective due to him sharing his own experience. Tom Purcell used pathos and emotion throughout the text. To start off, Purcell talks about …show more content…
Lastly, the author's pattern of development is on the stronger side. He made sure to use ethos, pathos and logos. One of the examples of logos being?Did nothing deserve such abuse and, incidentally, it's typical of misogynistic men to feel threatened by intelligent women.? He is using logos because he had a reason to believe that guy was a misogynistic guy because he felt threatened. Tom uses this method when talking overall about one thing, he states?About 40 writers attended the first happy-hour gathering, which ended up being the last one. As it went, one woman was particularly attractive. He uses a general to specific because he mentioned that about 40 writers went for happy hour, but that he went mainly for ladies. He also uses an example where a woman tested him and painted a picture of how he felt. He uses faulty logic because of how he thinks it was better in the days where you can be rude through email. In conclusion, the author seems to target young to mid-aged people. The author seemed to entertain and inform the audience. He told a story and how this happened to him. He used ethos and pathos mainly to set a picture of how that evening went down and how that experience made him see his fellow