In "Why literature matters", Dana Gioia creates an argument on why reading matters by using logos. Gioia includes results from studies and facts about how literature effects our society now and will in the future. In paragraph one, Gioia states that "The interest young Americans showed in arts-and especially literature-actually diminished." This helps Gioia come across to the reader as very knowledgeble on the topic. Logos is very helpful when trying to proswade someone to believe what you are saying. Gioia used logos throughout his artical to make himself seem reliable and trusted by the reader. In paragraph nine, Gioia added " the evidence of literatures importance to civic, personal, and economic health is to strong to ignore". This sentence
