Jacob+C

1. A writer is someone who has the ability to compose literary works. The literary work may be something as simple as a sentence to being as complex as a book. Thus making everyone a writer. A writer is not a common title that everyone would think of themselves as, but by doing simple common things we all have to ability to be one. To become a writer all someone has to do is jot down an idea that they have a show it to someone else. This is all that has to be done because if someone writes something and another person reads the work making the first person a writer. To become a writer is a simple task, but to be known as a writer a person must go through more tedious task. That what a writer is. -Jacob Croft

2.The article The Debate That Never Rests talks about different sleep methods but does not talk about the use of them. As the article goes on to talk about the infant’s sleeping patterns and techniques to get them to sleep they use many different ethos in it. The article uses all types of ethos, but the writer really focuses on situated ethos. In the article the writer uses the situated ethos, “Sears concedes that parents, too, need some rest.” The author uses the reputation of the well-respected author to convince parents reading that they sometimes have to ignore their infants. By using other people who are respective parent advice writers in the article the main author is able to use situated ethos effectively. The way the author ties all of the ethos together they are able to persuade people that parenting books are useful with modifications. That’s how ethos are used to persuade in this article.

-Jacob Croft

3. The article ‘Mad Men’ Crashes Woodstock’s Birthday by Frank Rich is a great example of use of pathos in a common article. Frank Rich uses many different types of pathos, but the most abundant was his use of pejorative language. Frank uses pejorative language when he says, “ any   large-scale youth “community” would be virtual, on Facebook and Twitter, and so might some of the sex. ” Frank uses the pejorative language here to describe how the world has progressed to a time in which we can no longer have past events occurred because society would morph the event. Frank is talking badly about what would happen now because he is disappointed that events like this can not happen. By using this he was able to disrespect modern society, but glorify the days that he cherished. The use of the pejorative language was effect because he was able to glorify the time in which Woodstock happened. Frank Rich used pathos to make modern society look back and realize how it has been corrupted since then.

-Jacob Croft