Saturday, February 2, 2008

Picking Your Nose Is Healthy?

I have another assignment this week so here goes.

According to http://www.kidzworld.com/article/4361-is-picking-your-nose-and-eating-it-good-for-you

Australian Lung specialist Dr. Fredrick claims the picking your nose and eating it might not only be O.K., but that it is actually good for you! He has two supporting reasons for this. 1. The nose is kept cleaner nose do to fingers getting places handkerchiefs cannot and 2. "Eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system. The nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria is collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine."

This article uses two forms of persuasion very well. It establishes Ethos by informing us that the source of the information is a respected Doctor. Then the article uses Logos to explain why picking your nose and eating it is healthy. The article, however, fails to use pathos or emotional appeal very effectively.
when it comes to comparing or contrasting this article with other persuasive works it generally fails in comparison. For example, DR. MLK's letter used all forms of rhetoric extraordinarily well (enough said); while our in class speaker had poor pathos and logos abilities and very little ethos to stand on when it came to public speaking. She was new to recruiting, she rabbit trailed way to much during her speech and she tried to tie things together that didn't correlate. This poor use of rhetoric was rather funny due to that fact that she was trying to teach us how to be persuasive.

I would rather read another article about picking ones nose than have her speak in class again.

I apologize for this scalding review but I'm just keeping it real.

Once again without wax,

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's important to keep it real... and the article that you've chosen is about as brutally real as I guess real can get, lol. =o)

Unknown said...

Wow, Keith. That's an interesting article you chose. What made you choose that topic?