Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Raising Kids in Non-Nuclear Families Article-Pathos
Throughout the article, Emily Kreid and Lizzie Bartlett, the authors, uses tries to capture the audience emotionally to convey that family life has changed significantly since the 1960's. By giving specific examples, such as single parent, same sex, and multigenerational households, the author hopes to capture the attention of families that fall in that category. Also, the authors direct tone and use of "you," while giving advice makes the audience feel like they are being addressed personally. This allows them to be held personally accountable. Lastly, the authors have specifically italicized questions that act like the audiences consciousness. They are simple questions yet people probably have not taken the time to address them and evaluate their home life. This self reflection grabs the audience emotionally and compels them to continue reading further.
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you think the author is specifically targeting those families? Not sure how it grabs the reader's emotions
ReplyDeleteI like your point about the italicized questions. Any reader who had a similar question in their own life would be drawn to the answers provided by the authors.
ReplyDeleteI'm not truly seeing how too much of this argument speaks to emotions except if I infer that by mentioning the various types of households you are saying people are emotionally affected in different ways based on their type household.
ReplyDeleteI'm not truly seeing how too much of this argument speaks to emotions except if I infer that by mentioning the various types of households you are saying people are emotionally affected in different ways based on their type household.
ReplyDeleteThis is only 7 sentences. In this project, a well-developed paragraph is supposed to 8-10 sentences. In fact, the teacher said you can write even longer blog posts than that!
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