Would you like to graduate with the high-grade point average? Students on every college campus should recognize the rhetorical effectiveness in their writing to earn the highest possible grade point average. Being aware of the intended audience will improve the persuasiveness of any piece of writing. The article, “Why do Doctors Commit Suicide?” written by Sinha (2014), focuses on the rigorous workload inexperienced physicians and the toll it takes on the mental health of doctors. The argument is not rhetorically effective because of the diversity in the intended audiences, which creates conflicts with the effectiveness of ethos, logos, and pathos.
The author does not address one specific audience in the article. The most persuasive writing will be intended for a single audience. The intended audience for the article includes virtually everyone: New Haven, New England, New Haven …show more content…
At the very end of the article a short biography of the author mentions that he is a first-year resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital (Sinha, 2014, para. 13). This is crucial for the persuasion as it establishes the credibility of the author. The audience now knows, he has completed graduate school, possibly from Yale University. He is knowledgeable about the process of becoming a doctor, as he is in his first year of residency. He establishes that he is a young doctor by saying, “fledgling doctors like me,” (Sinha, 2014, para. 5). The author establishes himself as physician throughout the editorial. In fact, only in paragraph two does the author not use a first-person pronoun. By using we, he groups himself with the medical community, more specifically recent graduates, current residents, and doctors. He uses personal experiences and feelings to relate to current doctors, but the quantity of personal experiences outweighs the citations of
The author does not address one specific audience in the article. The most persuasive writing will be intended for a single audience. The intended audience for the article includes virtually everyone: New Haven, New England, New Haven …show more content…
At the very end of the article a short biography of the author mentions that he is a first-year resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital (Sinha, 2014, para. 13). This is crucial for the persuasion as it establishes the credibility of the author. The audience now knows, he has completed graduate school, possibly from Yale University. He is knowledgeable about the process of becoming a doctor, as he is in his first year of residency. He establishes that he is a young doctor by saying, “fledgling doctors like me,” (Sinha, 2014, para. 5). The author establishes himself as physician throughout the editorial. In fact, only in paragraph two does the author not use a first-person pronoun. By using we, he groups himself with the medical community, more specifically recent graduates, current residents, and doctors. He uses personal experiences and feelings to relate to current doctors, but the quantity of personal experiences outweighs the citations of