Payal Patel
Mrs. Burt
English H - Per. 8
25 November 2014
Persuasion Techniques Come into Play
A writer often incorporates persuasion techniques into his writing in order to convince the reader to agree with the argument, share commonly accepted values, or adapt a new way of thinking. Afterwards, the writer is able to persuade the reader into anything because the reader is under the writer’s control. Persuasion techniques come in handy when a writer wants to spread his opinions and values to other people through personal experiences or factual evidence. Furthermore, these two opposing articles on the death penalty, The Conservative Case for Capital Punishment and Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die, both incorporate persuasion techniques …show more content…
Lewis from The Week, wrote the article The Conservative Case for Capital Punishment that discusses the positive support for the death penalty and the decrease in crime rates. In Lewis’s article, he uses allusions to famous cases that were once ruled in a court of law in order to build up on his argument with solid examples and supporting facts. For instance, Lewis states, “You really can’t take someone like Clayton Lockett and reform him - or at least, the odds of doing so are unfathomable.” Thus, he uses Clayton Lockett as an example to strengthen his argument against the death penalty through the sarcasm of reforming a terrible murderer. Similarly, Gillespie, who is the author of Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die, uses the same technique with the same intention of intensifying his claim, which is, however, against the death penalty and its ineffective usage. For example, he writes, “After macabre screw-ups in Oklahoma and Ohio, it was Arizona’s turn last week, when double-murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took about two hours to die.” Therefore, by telling the reader that “the death penalty system is ineffective and too harsh”, Gillespie is enhancing his claims with the slow and painful death of Joseph Rudolph Wood
Mrs. Burt
English H - Per. 8
25 November 2014
Persuasion Techniques Come into Play
A writer often incorporates persuasion techniques into his writing in order to convince the reader to agree with the argument, share commonly accepted values, or adapt a new way of thinking. Afterwards, the writer is able to persuade the reader into anything because the reader is under the writer’s control. Persuasion techniques come in handy when a writer wants to spread his opinions and values to other people through personal experiences or factual evidence. Furthermore, these two opposing articles on the death penalty, The Conservative Case for Capital Punishment and Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die, both incorporate persuasion techniques …show more content…
Lewis from The Week, wrote the article The Conservative Case for Capital Punishment that discusses the positive support for the death penalty and the decrease in crime rates. In Lewis’s article, he uses allusions to famous cases that were once ruled in a court of law in order to build up on his argument with solid examples and supporting facts. For instance, Lewis states, “You really can’t take someone like Clayton Lockett and reform him - or at least, the odds of doing so are unfathomable.” Thus, he uses Clayton Lockett as an example to strengthen his argument against the death penalty through the sarcasm of reforming a terrible murderer. Similarly, Gillespie, who is the author of Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die, uses the same technique with the same intention of intensifying his claim, which is, however, against the death penalty and its ineffective usage. For example, he writes, “After macabre screw-ups in Oklahoma and Ohio, it was Arizona’s turn last week, when double-murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took about two hours to die.” Therefore, by telling the reader that “the death penalty system is ineffective and too harsh”, Gillespie is enhancing his claims with the slow and painful death of Joseph Rudolph Wood