Hello Fellow Bloggers,
This fourth blog assignment involved reading editorials that attempted to shed light on a certain subject and present it in a way that would make the reader think along the lines that the writer intends them to. For this assignment I looked at various JSTOR daily articles as well as the "news" articles that were provided.
I rather enjoyed reading the JSTOR editorials because these editorials were very well written in that they appeared with tremendous ethos. The writers of these JSTORs wrote these editorials like a traditional one, yet they were composed in a way that presented the material in a professional manner that leaves their opinion in the depths of the article. The information was presented in a way that was not outright biased which also help evoke more ethos from the work.
The one editorial that stood out to me was the townhall.com editorial about liberals. One could simply read the title and know it was going to be a right winged piece denouncing liberal thought which to me, throws all credibility out the window all together. The newspaper articles focused more on the entertainment rather than the drier black and white get to the point structure of the JSTORs.
Editorials are an interesting genre of writing. They are meant to entertain, yet provide an opinion and attempt to persuade the reader to think likewise or make the reader question the argument at hand. There is a common occurrence of persuasive writing. The authors in all the editorials attempt to appeal to the readers sense of ethos and pathos depending on the subject of the article.
Your Fellow Blogger,
Kina Bramlette
Hey, Kina!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you said that editorials are interesting. Its weird, because you think you would be more interested in the articles that would have a lot of factual information and evidence to support it because it isn’t just a bunch of random arguments thrown out with information you don’t know is true. I read the article “Liberals are the Sort of People Who..” and it was basically that; a bunch of random accusations and false claims that are solely based on opinion. But honestly, it was a lot more interesting than the JTOR articles that actually provided logical evidence and credibility. Maybe its because JSTOR articles remind me too much of the types of writing we have to do in school. But maybe its also due to the fact that we like to read articles that have opinions as they propose the potential for actual conversation.
- Joan Marie Laygo