Kathleen Brown Rhetorical Analysis

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hetorical Analysis - Article 2 Katleen Brown from “ Human vs. Technology- What We Need To Know?,” is a health and beauty advisor. She enjoys writing articles about any type of topic in her website, so people who read them know more about the topic she is writing about. The main point of this article is to let people understand that technology is not a negative thing but instead it is a positive resource. The authors main strategy used to persuade her audience is pathos and talking about the opposing viewpoint this combo messed with the audience emotions but she gave a solution to fix their emotions. The audience from this article is not specifically pointed to a main audience, it is to everyone who uses technology so basically everyone.

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