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1. Discussion: Decisions made by CDC
Discussion: Decisions made by CDCDiscussion: Decisions made by CDCIn the rhetorical
analysis assignment, you will be expected to demonstrate an understanding that every text
is created for a unique situation and audience.You will need to act on this by analyzing the
decisions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their website
about ADHD. This includes the persuasive appeals the CDC uses. Aristotle believed that
speakers and writers used three kinds of persuasive appeals. Logos is an appeal to the
audience’s powers of reason or logic. Pathos is an appeal to emotions or senses.Ethos is the
personal appeal, charisma, or credibility of the speaker or writer. These three appeals are
known as the rhetorical triangle because all three sides work together to make a text
effective or not. In your own words, explain the concepts of pathos, logos, and ethos and
why they are important appeals to recognize in a text. Next, use the CDC’s page about
ADHD to analyze the ethos, logos, and pathos in the document. Consider the following
questions in your response:•What do you think about the logic presented in the
document?•What do you think about its emotional appeal•What about its appeal to
authority or credibility?•Does the CDC effectively present each of the rhetorical appeals?
Why or why not?Link to Centers of Disease Control’s website:
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silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is
advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten
corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12
characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins
or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended
number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.Likewise, large type, large
margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines),
increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to
increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your
professor.The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on
the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white

2. paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to
follow your argument.