Searching, Searching, and Searching

So I have been looking for an article to write my summary/ strong response article. It took me two hours but I think I have found three articles that I would enjoy writing about. I didn't enjoy the opinion piece we read in class on Friday. It made me crazy bored! No offense to Dr. Westover. So I knew from that assignment in class I needed to find an article that excited me!

So I started searching, searching, and searching. While I was searching I though I want a piece of writing that I could get passionate about. So I would lower down all the boring articles on issues that I don't like to write about. I found some articles that met that. I read them again and again. The articles didn't get boring after the fifth time I read them. I realized that I respond more to health care issues, and issues that affect Utah more then I do to issues that affect the country. Those issues are the ones that hit home to me.

The rhetorical strategies that seem to work on me are Pathos and Ethos. I always want to know why the author has a write to talk about the issue they are talking about. One of the articles I really liked was written by a bunch of doctors about health reform. Once I saw who wrote the article it grabbed my attention. I knew they had a right to talk about the issue and I knew that they know what they are talking about. So I loved that article. Also with the same article it drew on my Pathos. It talked about cancer patients which hits home to me since I have a cousin, mom, and teacher who all have had cancer. The article drew on those emotions and I love reading articles that I can relate to as a reader.

I think that I have found a couple articles that are going to be good for my paper. I am excited to write about these articles. It was hard at first to find articles but once I started looking for articles that I liked reading it got me excited for this paper.