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. |
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