8/13/2019 WRD 103 Rhetorical Analysis for Petition Final
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Kinga Mamulska
WRD 103
Rhetorical Analysis for Petition - Final
A petition usually has the goal of convincing and informing an
audience about an issue
and gives ideas about what should be done, and that is exactly
what I did in my petition. The
audience for this genre would mainly include people of all ages
18 and older that could take
action and sign a petition but also be willing to listen to or
read the change that should be made.
The petition doesnt reallycontain the technique of much ethos to
make the argument convincing
since I dont put too much of myself in the petition. In a
petition I wouldnt expect anyone to use
too much ethos since a petition doesnt show an authors
background in depth and most time the
author may even be unknown. In my petition I used a lot of logos
and some pathos to convince
readers to take an action because those two techniques are more
dominant in a petition.
I mostly used the technique of logos because I assumed my
audience to be somewhat
uninformed about the issue. In my first paragraph of my petition
I give a lot of information on
why nursing homes are bad. While I am giving this information I
also include many examples of
how people are treated badly by saying specific things like the
people not being bathed and fed
properly and often. I argue that people in prisons get treated
better because of the facts that
people in prison get more attention and better care than people
in nursing homes. A counter
argument that isnt dealt with in depth is the issue of money but
I do touch on it by saying that
the government spends more money or prisoners anyway. I also
mention that often times the
people who are in nursing homes have it paid by their own money
or their familys money. I
dont believe I have left anything out when trying to use logic
because everything I put into my
