Rhetorical Analysis: The Coddling Of The American Mind

What was once a grand and open space of ideas and endeavors now seems to be slowly grinding to a halt this space is the American university realm. What has slowly seeped in is the idea that student must be coddled and prevented from being presented with ideas that are quite frankly anti-anything they have perviously experienced, well at least this how Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt view the current trend of the American university system. In a article they penned for the “The Atlantic” they would write a article titled “The Coddling of The American Mind” released in september of 2015 they at the time would highlight all the issues they felt had arisen from the growing trend of being politically correct in order to stave off any student …show more content…
One such element they use is Logos. This type of straggly use shows the reader how much campus culture has been drawn away from the common scholarly notion and been drawn into how best keep students from feeling or seeing any adversity. The authors alternative to use of logos is Ethos. They utilize this by drawing in numbers from exterior sources in order to hopefully make there argument more even keeled. This is a way to show the audience that there are people besides the authors that also see this phenomena of political correctness starting to reign down on campuses. This adds legitimacy to the authors viewpoint. rendering a more effective argument for its inclusion. The authors third use of stragetic use of argument is with Pathos. This is appeal to emotion. Which considering how emotional Americans can be is a argument that rounds out the logical with a more humanitarian angel that makes the reader feel more connected with what is occurring on the campus level. This rounds out the argument in a way that makes the reader step away from solely reading on a electronic or print media and remembering what it was like to be a student or rationalize what current students are going