Collins is able to reach her audience about the importance of women’s perception of the military by using a tailored combination of rhetorical techniques. She believes that women in the military have come a long way from and deserve to fight in combat positions just as men are allowed to do so. To make the audience believe that, she uses strategies like proper organization of ideas, her knowledge about the history of women and including a conversation with an actual female army veteran to establish her credibility which allows for the audience to develop trust. Furthermore Collins does appeal to logic in order to convince her audience members by using statistical data about the number of women in the military. She connects her audience with
