Rhetorical Analysis: Agriculture Needs More Women

Rhetorical Analysis: Agriculture Needs More Women In the article Agriculture Needs More Women, the author addresses the issues in food production and how more women should be running food production factories than there is now. The author’s purpose is to inform other people of the need for more women working in the agriculture industry due to harsh treatment of the animals. The author adopts a professional yet biased tone to lead the reader of the article to believe that animals are treated cruelly, and that cruel treatment should be stopped. The author also uses a lot of pathos in her article so that the reader will have pity on the situation and will agree with what the author has to say. The author begins this article by describing the work conditions that animals are put through in the food production process. The author appeals to the reader’s emotions by emphasizing that the animals were placed in cages …show more content…
The author points a solution out, showing the reader that although this is an extreme problem, it could also be fixed if they do what she says. This section of the article is to prompt the reader to take action to her words, and not just agree with her. In conclusion, the author who wrote this article uses pathos and logos repetitively to persuade and convince the reader to agree to what she is saying and her claims. By doing this, the author sends the reader back and forth between pathos and logos reasoning, dissuading the reader of any doubts they had by bringing up the emotional and reasoning parts of their mind, eventually persuading them the agree to her claim. The author also uses ethos in the beginning of the article, ensuring the reader that she knows what she is doing because of all the experience she has