In the article, "CONDUCTIVE SPRAY PAINT CAN TURN ANY SURFACE INTO A TOUCHSCREEN" written and published by journalist Anthony Cuthbertson, describes how this spray paint called "electrick" can coat any object using electricity to make a touchscreen.
Through Cuthbertson's article, her uses formal and scholarly diction. Cuthbertson uses words like "exceptionally", electric field tomography", "irregular-shaped" or "functionality" that describe his diction as formal and scholarly because they are very academic and conventional words. These formal words do not indicate, in my opinion, that the author has an emotional attachment to this new product, but it does show his alarmed and urgent tone. This tone is represented by those scholarly word because he uses the highly academic words to keep pushing on how this inventive product can possibly change the future. Cuthberston, in trying to inform the reader of this new product, appeals to logos and ethos. The appeal to logos comes from the author describing the facts on what this new product can and cannot do like making a touchscreen to any surface. Cuthbertson also appeals to ethos in that, as he describes the the workings of the product like it being able to detect the location of a finger touch to one centimeter, or stating the researchers at the Future Interfaces Group, gives Cuthbertson, the researchers and the product all credibility. The product is being describing in a cool manner where it makes it more credible as a product for the consumers that want to buy it. It also gives credibility to the author and the researchers because Cuthbertson is very knowledgeable about the product as well as the creators of the being knowledge about its background. Cuthbertson's tone through out the article is very zealous and alarmed. It doesn't seem he has a personal attachment to this story other than the fact this new product is very cool and interesting. When Cuthbertson is describing the product and qutoing other people about the product, it seems as if he is very eager and passionate to tell what the product is and how it works. The purpose of the author's article is to inform and publicize this new product. The parts where he describes the details and inner-workings of the product shows me that he wants to publicize this product and inform other readers that it could be a new invention of something grand and new. The overall goal is to definitely describe how this product works and what it does for the human population. I think Cuthbertson's position on this topic makes him more credible because of how well he is able to describe and make the product sound useful and exciting. Through Cuthbertson's argument, his whole article was very short, but also informative. The strong use of scholarly diction and alarmed tone really made me more involved in the topic of this article, wanting to find out more. Cuthbertson goes straight into the details of the product, the later describe what it be for or how it is beneficial to use when it is presented to a public crowd. I think his argument is solid, because even thought the article was very short, his credibility about the product and the product its self made me, as the audience and reader, more intrigued in the article and wanted to research more about it.
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The article, "Texas Police Officer Roy Oliver Charged With Murder for Killing 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards", published by Reuters, describes how a police officer was charged with murder for shooting a fifteen year old black male while in a van with other people.
Reuter's used a curt and informal diction in his article because he didn't use an scholarly words and explained the story briefly. Reuter seemed to not have an emotional attachment to the story which serves as a "non-bias article". The words that he used created a very neutral tone since he didn't seem to have an emotional attachment to the story, which also help make it seem less opinionated. Reuter appeals to both logos and pathos in order to describe and explain the story of the office and black male. For logos, Reuter uses facts like using specific details of the story like the neighborhood and crime scene. For appealing to pathos, he states the family feelings and actions toward the crime and charges, as well as funeral plans. This appeals to emotions because the family lost their child that is possibly due to racial discrimination as well as the sheer fact of loosing a loved one. The author's tone for this tragic story came off as objective, as well as apathetic. Reuter used words like "ordered it to stop, but it pulled away" or "was struck by a bullet to the head and died". Reuter doesn't show any concern or energy to the traumatic story, but also does not detail his opinion through his article. Reuter's purpose in publishing this story consist of describing an event of a young male loosing his life. The story explains the issue of the black male being shot and killed by a white police man in a minority neighborhood. It elaborates on the continuing issue with white police officers supposedly discriminating and killing black males. It appeals to the readers emotions dealing with a popular topic as well as a tragic event. The overall goal is to describe this event and spread the issue on police killing people in possible ways that are unconstitutional. I think Reuter's argument through appeals isn't over all that strong. His organization seemed very weird in my own opinion and his main thoughts seemed to be spaced around his short article. Even though his organization is not well, he uses strong evidence and facts to support what happened for the event. I don't think the argument is completely solid because he does use reliable resources and it seems more like him telling just what he heard. n the article, "Special Forces Commander Says Soldiers 'Are Suffering' From Over 15 Years of War", published by Tom O'Connor, it describes how a commander from the U.S. forces explains that soldiers from these forces are suffering from being in long years of wars.
The diction used in the author's article is very scholarly and formal. O'Connor uses words like "unrealistic" and "unsustainable" to show the emotions towards solider suffering through the war years. There seems to be a high level of an emotional attachment to the story because of how strong the diction's negative connotation is. O'Connor appeals to pathos and ethos in this article when describing the suffering of the soldiers because it talks about how navy seals and soldiers die which connects to the audience on an emotional level or sorrow. This appeals to pathos because it explains how the tragic event is hurting soldiers and this connects the audience to feel sympathetic to the soldiers. This also relates and appeals to ethos because it uses president Donald Trump and Navy seals as credible resources to back up the information. The authors tone towards the situation seems very solemn and indignant. O'Connor uses words like "criticized" and "suffered" to show how the actions of the Special Forces caused a great deal of pain to those soldiers. O'Connor seems very angry because of the injustice the soldiers have been receiving for fighting for our country. The author also seems to want to show the audience a serious reflection over the whole issue. The purpose of O'Connor's article is to explain how the soldier's were set out on unrealistic missions that caused many deaths among them. This especially hits the reader when it talks about certain deaths like Navy Seal Ryan Owens or the soldier killed in Africa. The overall goal for O'Connor is to spread awareness of this possible issue so that maybe enough knowledge can be spread to put an end to unnecessary missions for those on the Special Forces. The author organizes his arguments through pathos and ethos very well because the sentence structure along with his paragraphs allow for complete thoughts and points he is trying to make. O'Connor uses strong evidence in order to support his arguments that these missions are unrealistic like using the deaths of many soldiers and having that emotional connection to the reader. In the article, "IS INDIA READY FOR UBER? IS UBER READY FOR INDIA?", published and wrote by journalist Brittany Hunter, she describes how Uber holds both benefits and downfalls to the billions of people who live in India. Hunter claims that yes, Uber could help with all the traffic that is caused by the over population, but it also is a problem considering how many of those potential Uber drivers are illiterate.
Throughout Hunter's article on Uber in India, she uses informal yet concrete diction. Words like "severely lacking", "ridesharing service", or "tech-based", show how Hunter's diction shows interest in Uber becoming popular in India as well as her caring that it could be a potential benefit considering the over-populated size. With Hunter's interest based off her diction, it shows that she does have an emotional attachment to India having an Uber because she uses those words to describe the benefits and downfalls of starting this business in India. This diction shows Hunter's tone as being caring but still reflective and candid about the problems needed to be fixed within India. Along with Hunter's use of informal diction that appeared as concrete, she also appeals to logos and pathos. At the beginning of her article, Hunter describes how India is over populated with one billion and counting citizens as well as being illiterate- this appeals to pathos because as a reader, I felt sad and upset that there is so much traffic due to their population size as well as having most of them not being able to read, it was depressing because they cant even have a licensed Uber driver without them not being able to read a map or a smart phone. It also appeals to pathos because at the end of her article, Hunter describes who will benefit from this business in India and how it helps women lives safer from rape- which is also scary and frightening to think about for those in India. As well as appealing to pathos, Hunter also appeals to logos and she does this by stating facts on how India is populated with over one billion people in India. Hunter also states how this appeals to logos because at the end when she is talking about who could benefit from Uber, she exclaims the fact that rape is the fourth most common crime committed in India. Hunter's tone throughout her article is somber yet optimistic. Hunter shows these tones because she describes how Uber is an company that is a possible support and helpful business that can help with transportation and states how their are good outcomes with having this company present in India. Then, Hunter creates a tonal shift after talking about the good it could bring, to the bad it might have due to lack of literacy in India and possibly not safer if it isn't tried. This shows how she went from seeing a possible good outcome to talking about the seriousness problems within India and Uber. The purpose in Hunter's article is to show the possibility of Uber present in India could help control traffic and give jobs, as well as having setbacks due to the lack of necessities for the company to thrive in India. I believe her overall goal is just to inform on how certain business that have elicited good benefits in the United States, can also work in other countries, as long as we are able to undergo and fix any problems along the way. Hunter's position in this article makes her as a journalist more creditable because she is informing others about causes i other countries as well as bringing positive thoughts about certain companies and trying to help solve problems. Hunter's argument through is well constructed because in her article, she has her main topic and title on what the article will be about. Inside the article, Hunter has subtitles that divide each sub-topic or idea that she wanted to discuss and make it a part of her argument that needed to be focused on. Hunter does this by using statistics as well as appealing to the audiences emotions like the statistic on rape or the literacy problem that causes more problems for those in India. Hunter's article is a solid argument in my opinion because having those ideas she wanted to be focused on that were broken into different sections made it that much easier to see her points. Each section was one reason to show whether or not if India and the Uber business were ready for each other, and she very much showed that. In article, "FOUR INDICATORS OF A HIGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE", published by journalists Jose M. Mestre and Kimberly A. Barchard claims four reasons- you think about your reactions, you see situations as a challenge, you can modify your emotions, and you can put yourself in other people's shoes- that make people have high, emotional intelligence.
In Mestre and Barchard's article, these journalists uses a moralistic diction throughout. In the article, the journalists used words like "mental health" and "social behaviour." Those diction words are moralistic because it relates to human behavior and talks about how people can figure out if they are emotionally intelligent or not. These moralistic diction words show the journalists emotional attachment to the subject because they use words that relate to the topic, showing they understand and are were probably curious if these four statements really do show the intelligence. Mestre and Barchard uses rhetorical devices like complex syntax, repetition and appeal to pathos. The journalists use of complex syntax creates the emotion that they are very interested of informing the reading of their topic. These complex syntax sentences are constructed of their thoughts or opinions with "-" to extend the thought with elaborate examples to further the reader. The journalist also use repetition when they said "people who lack...", "people who are..." and "people with..." in order to reach out to the audience and see if the description relates to the audience. The repetition of those words also elicit the informative opinions on high intelligence and descriptions of them. Along with those two rhetorical devices, the journalist appeal to pathos when they establish an emotional connections to reader by stating certain descriptions that might connect to individuals reading the article. Throughout the article, the journalists writing represents their frivolous yet didactic tone. Mestre and Barchard describe the four topics that can lead to high intelligence as sort of a joking manner, but still provide sufficient evidence as to way it is a plausible reason. The journalists states, "So if you want to know if you’re emotionally intelligent, simply check the list below." (Mestre and Barchard 2017). They provide evidence that is credible but also make it as a silly way to describe it in that their tone comes off as it lacks seriousness toward the topic. The authors's purpose of describing four indicators of a high emotional intelligence is to establish their opinions on the topic and their own thoughts on how to determine intelligence. The writing that directly speaks to their purpose involves Mestre and Barchard describing emotional intelligence in humans, then listing their OPINIONATED thoughts to figuring out intelligence. The overall goal, in my opinion- LOL- is that the journalist want to inform their audience of their opionions and evidence of how to determine intelligence based of personal experines and observations. In the article, "THE AARON HERNANDEZ SUICIDE: A FOOTBALL BRAIN INJURY LINK", published by Max Kutner describes how former football player Aaron Hernandez's brain will be examined to tie in a brain disease correlated to numerous deaths related to suicide by other football players.
In Kutner's article, his diction could be described as formal and scholarly. Throughout his article, Kutner uses words like "chronic traumatic encephalopathy", "traceable", or "progressive degenerative condition" to show how serious and formal the topic was. It also shows how informative and knowledge that the author is about the suicide and brain injury from doing all the background research for Aaron Hernandez's incident. It doesn't seem that Kutner has an emotional attachment based on his formal diction, but it does show that he believes that brain injuries from foot and suicide are correlated. Kutner appeals to mostly logos and pathos within his article. In the article, Kutner uses mostly facts like when he claimed, "A 2001 Danish study of nearly 150,000 people, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psyhiatry, also found a higher suicide rate among people with a traumatic brain injury." or " In a 2016 study of 40 retired National Football League (NFL) players, 43 percent showed evidence of traumatic brain injury." (Kutner 2017). These statistics area appeals to logos in that Kutner uses logic and staticits to futher back up his argument that brain injurt from football is the probable cause of Aaron Hernandez's suicide. Kutner also appeals to pathos when describing his death and the possible causes. This hits the readers from an emotional aspect and most likely to those who were fans of Hernandez's. Through the article, Kutner uses a censorious and somber tone dealing with Hernandez's tragic event. Kutner uses phrases like "...join the growing list of former professional football players afflicted by the brain disease—and the list of those who have died by suicide." and "... found that patients with a history of traumatic brain injury were nearly twice as likely to die by suicide than those without such an injury." These phrases explain how Kutner's tone is very serious because the suicide is a critical situation that could of been caused by his athletic profession according to past evidences and cases. This tone creates an emotional attachment from Kutner belief that this football injury could of been the reason for his suicide in the jail cell. Kutner's purpose in writing this article on Aaron Hernandez is to discuss the matter of why Hernandez committed suicide. The portion of Kutner's writing that speaks directly to his purpose because of how many statistics he uses through his whole article. Those statistics are evidence to back up the claim that his suicide is linked to football brain injuries. The overall goal is to definitely support Aaron Hernandez in his reasoning for committed suicide, and also inform about the football injuries that causes these certain actions within people and athletes. I believe Kurt's position on this topic is very credible and valued high because of his knowledge about the background of linkage between brain injuries and suicide. The argument Kutner claims is organized very well constructed through his uses of diction, tone and other rhetorical devices like appealing to logos. With his appeal to logos, he gives very detailed evidence of statistic and former brain studies of other football players that committed suicide as well as Hernandez. Kutner's argument is very solid in the fact of him using many statistic to make him both knowledgeable and credible about his stance of Hernandez's suicide and the reasons for the tragic event. In the article, "The Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angles Displays The Relics of Lost Love", published by journalist Nadja Sayej, describes how Los Angles modeled a sister museum after the permanent one in Zagreb. Both museums displayed objects showing different types of broken relationships like stuffed animals, letters, texts, etc.
Throughout Sayej article, she uses esoteric diction. Words like "end of love", "depressed", or "emotional value" help describe her diction as being understood by a select few who has been through broken relationships and have special values towards objects from those relationships. Those kinds of diction words Sayej display how people that have felt this pain are able to understand what the article talks about and what the museum is all about. This possible shows how the author might have an emotional connection towards this topic and might have also experienced a broken relationship before. Rhetorical devices that Sayej appeals to in her article is pathos and uses complex and simple sentence syntax. In her article, Sayej talks about where the idea of the Los Angles museum came from and what the museum is about. The museum holds many object on display that depict relationships either about family, friends or partners that ended and hold a symbolic value about that relationship. It appeals to pathos because the author wants to reader to experience an emotional attachment to each of the examples and the museum itself because everyone has gone through rough relationships in their lifetime. |
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