In this article by South Florida Sun Sentinel, “It Is Time to Finally Ban Smoking in State Parks”, the author Pierobon explains that the new bills being filed for this legislative session if passed will ban smoking and vaping in their state parks and why this is needed to be enacted.
Throughout the article, the author uses these key strategies in order to persuade the author.
- They use elements of pathos relating cigarette litter as the most common litter that is making state parks less beautiful.
- This is followed up with logos on the environmental toll of cigarettes and they also explain the bad impact it could have on impressionable children who may think smoking is good. They also use more logos to explain environmental damage from fires caused by smoking as a leading cause of man-made fires in state parks. They continue explaining logos reasons for banning smoking.
- They end their argument with a simple pathos that legislators say they want to support family values (callback to impressionable children) and a clean environment (most other points they explained).
Their strategy is basically sandwiching the logic between appeals to emotion, starting and ending with pathos while the real meat of it is pure logic. By framing their argument with emotional appeals at the beginning and end, they effectively engage readers’ emotions while presenting the core of their rationale with logical reasoning. This is a very interesting because this allows for the author to effectively hook in readers, creating an engaging and dynamic reading experience right from the beginning to the end.
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