Rough Draft “I H8 Txt Msgs: How Texting is Wrecking Our Language”
How does Humphreys use rhetorical strategies to persuade his readers?
When reading John Humphreys article, you can definitely tell that there is a lot of good evidence stating that our language has changed over the past couple of year. The changes that have occurred over the past couple of years, however haven’t always improved the way we write or speak today. The purpose of this essay is to show you, the reader, how Humphrey uses ethos, logos and pathos to persuade the reader.
Starting with ethos, which is the ethnical appeal, Humphrey states in his article that people are being “forced” to get the newest technology, such as cellphone, or else their being ridicule by society …show more content…
When looking closely at the article, we can tell Humphrey uses logos by telling us that people that text make more arrows than people, who still write the old way. If we are all honest, most of us use autocorrect when it comes to writing a text message and we rely on it way too much. With autocorrect we don’t necessary have to worry that something is misspelled. Now, if we happen to shut off the autocorrect and write a text message, the likelihood of us making an arrow is lot higher because we usually don’t pay that much attention on how certain words are written. John Humphrey also mentioned in his article that the text language has changed over the years. Instead of writing “tanks”, people will writ “tk”, or instead of writing “you” people will just write “u”. This goes along with people making more mistakes when writing a text without autocorrect. It may be quicker to write like that or it may even seem “cool”, however after some time your brain might forget how to actually spell those words, since it’s so used to using the shortcuts all the time. For the logos part, John Humphrey persuades his readers by using logical examples. Research has proven that people make more mistakes when writing a text and it’s obvious that our text language has changed over the years, since no one used to write like that 10/15 years
How does Humphreys use rhetorical strategies to persuade his readers?
When reading John Humphreys article, you can definitely tell that there is a lot of good evidence stating that our language has changed over the past couple of year. The changes that have occurred over the past couple of years, however haven’t always improved the way we write or speak today. The purpose of this essay is to show you, the reader, how Humphrey uses ethos, logos and pathos to persuade the reader.
Starting with ethos, which is the ethnical appeal, Humphrey states in his article that people are being “forced” to get the newest technology, such as cellphone, or else their being ridicule by society …show more content…
When looking closely at the article, we can tell Humphrey uses logos by telling us that people that text make more arrows than people, who still write the old way. If we are all honest, most of us use autocorrect when it comes to writing a text message and we rely on it way too much. With autocorrect we don’t necessary have to worry that something is misspelled. Now, if we happen to shut off the autocorrect and write a text message, the likelihood of us making an arrow is lot higher because we usually don’t pay that much attention on how certain words are written. John Humphrey also mentioned in his article that the text language has changed over the years. Instead of writing “tanks”, people will writ “tk”, or instead of writing “you” people will just write “u”. This goes along with people making more mistakes when writing a text without autocorrect. It may be quicker to write like that or it may even seem “cool”, however after some time your brain might forget how to actually spell those words, since it’s so used to using the shortcuts all the time. For the logos part, John Humphrey persuades his readers by using logical examples. Research has proven that people make more mistakes when writing a text and it’s obvious that our text language has changed over the years, since no one used to write like that 10/15 years