Article for this assignment : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635840/ Your rhetorical analysis should argue about how well the text fulfills (or doesn’t fulfill) its purpose for a par
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Tsung Hsuan Ho
ENGL 250
18 Sep 2019
Rhetorical Analysis Outline: How well does the text or does not fulfill its purpose for a particular audience
A: Introduction
In the text “Long-distance dating relationships, relationship dissolution, and College Adjustment” by Waterman, Wesche, Leavitt, Jones, and Lefkowitz, the text fulfills its purpose for the intended audience. It does so by making use of its wording (CONSIDERDETAILED + TECHNICAL, structuring, and ideas that are well articulated and connected to gain the attention of the intended audience. The text explains how many college students tend to have romantic relationships with partners who are not in the same geographic area.
Thesis: The authors use pathos, logos and ethos strategies to capture the attention of their intended audience which helps them accomplish their purpose of showing the connection between romantic relationship, relationship dissolution, and college adjustment.
B: Body
I) Logos Strategy
The authors apply logos in trying to persuade the audience using the logical argument about the general situation of how LDDRs may affect adults at the universities. Both positive and negative effects such as university activities, loneliness and use of alcohol are given as supporting evidence (Waterman, Wesche, Leavitt, Jones & Lefkowitz, 2017). It is evident in the example given in the 4th paragraph which states “The relational extremes of LDsDRs may introduce additional stressors that make the transition to college more difficult for these students than their peers who are single or in GCDRs.”
II) Pathos Strategy
The text does not fulfill its purpose for the intended audience by applying pathos strategies that helps the audience to feel the emotion within the text. However, for this article, it was meant to be more academic, so the explanations are descriptive, yet they are also very hollow. For example, paragraph 3 states that “Thus, we hypothesize that students in LDDRs will be overall lonelier than single students and students in GCDRs. ” (Waterman, Wesche, Leavitt, Jones & Lefkowitz, 2017). While this factual text does have a point, but not everyone is like that, this is an average that has been polled and estimated. They are numbers, not real emotions.
III) Ethos Strategy
The text also uses its wording, structuring, and ideas that are well articulated and connected to gain the attention of the intended audience boosting credibility of their ideas which is an ethos strategy. They create reader’s interest and trust by comparing that dissolution between the passionate connection between adults may have both adverse and positive effects on adults such as positive life changes and adjustments such psychological distress, grief, and depression.
C) Conclusion
Based on my analysis, I believe that the text accomplishes its purpose through how it's wording, structural outline, and ideas connectedness that allows the authors to reach the intended audience. All this is facilitated by adoption of logos and ethos strategies in the rhetorical analysis I undertook of the text. While it does not contain almost any pathos, it is reasonable because this text is more used as a reference text, which needs to be factual text and not biased.
Work Cited
Waterman, E. A., Wesche, R., Leavitt, C. E., Jones, D. E., & Lefkowitz, E. S. (2017). Long- distance dating relationships, relationship dissolution, and college adjustment. Emerging Adulthood, 5(4), 268-279.Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635840/