Wednesday, September 14, 2011

SWA # 7 Formal Outline

Title:  Rhetorical Analysis of "The Story of a Snitch"
Thesis:  Jeremy Kahn uses many appeals to his audience's pathos by detailing struggles of witnesses thus strengthening his argument on how many crimes go unsolved due to increasing violence against witnesses.
I. Kahn uses a specific story to bring his audience closer to someone who has experienced the legal system multiple times.
      A. John Dowery's struggles with the life of a person awaiting trial and a witness.
II. The ethos is strengthened by facts and statistics.
      A. Placement of statistics in placement with in people's personal experiences.

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