How opinion articles work on me.

While searching for an article to write my paper on I thought about the questions we are supposed to ask ourselves for the blog. Like, “What grabs my attention in a piece of writing?”... I noticed what grabs my attention are things that interest me or are also concerns of mine. I am not super into politics so I didn’t want to do an article about Obama even though there is a lot of controversy over the fact he won a noble peace prize. I am interested in health and nutrition so I noticed articles about that grabbed my attention. Another question that I asked myself was “ Why do I respond more to some of these articles than others?” ... My answer to that kind of ties in with the first one. But other than the fact that I like to read articles about topics I am interested in, I respond to some articles more than others because of the way it presents itself. For instance, I notice that I pay more attention to an article if it has some sort of pathos or personal story. Articles don’t always have these but if it does then I am pretty much sold. As far as rhetorical strategies go, pathos is one that works well on me... and so does kairos. Kairos makes me believe that what the author is saying is actually backed up. The author could be making it up but if there are statistics involved or quotes from doctors or something I will believe what the author has to say more than anyone else.