Ashley+D

-Ashley Doty
 * 1) A writer is… anybody. I don’t think that a writer really has a definition of it’s own. Anybody can write, whether it be a five year old or a ninety year old. You don’t have to be famous to be known as a writer. You can write about how your day was in a journal or you could be writing for The New York Times. As long as you use your imagination and put it down on paper. I think that that someone is a writer as long as you put thought into whatever it is your writing. Some people get paid for their writing which is cool, but others just do it for the fun of it because they enjoy it. Writing is about how you feel.

2. In the article we read, “The Debate That Never Rest” the author Pamela Paul uses mostly invented ethos. She uses invented ethos when she talks about her own daughter and how she sleeps all through the night. “Since the age of three months, our little Beatrice has slept from 7 to 7.” By using her daughter as an example, Pamela is telling people that her program does work and it’s not fake. She also mentions different doctors like Dr. Sears. This article also uses logos, because of Dr. Sears and the books he has written and Pamela uses him as a valuable source. She also uses a little bit of situated ethos by talking about Dr. Sears. And how his books affected the baby sleeping program. -Ashley Doty :D

3. In the article I chose, “Stealing in Childhood Does Not a Criminal Make.” It uses a lot of pathos. This article talks about how children steal because they could be angry and what you can do to correct them. Parents wonder why their children steal, “Kids are trying to find out what happens if you get caught, and one of the biggest problems is if you don’t catch them.” As stated by Dr. Howard, I think that if your child is stealing and you don’t know about it, you don’t pay enough attention to your child. This article uses enargeia when Dr. Howard is talking about one of his patients and how the little girl stole a hair accessory and her mom was crying. This article doesn’t uses any pejorative language but it does use honorific language when it talks about how parents need to discipline their children when they do something wrong. Stealing can be stopped if you catch it at an early age. -Ashley Doty