“Water Wars: Bottling Up the World’s Supply of H2O” is an effective argument to convince U.S. citizens to choose tap water over bottled water due to the argument’s interesting data, the emotion of urgency, and the achievable solution offered.
(Tell me what you think guys, this was somewhat of an experiment)
Now for the body...not in order.
Author Joshua Ortega starts immediately into the necessity of water. The opening paragraph to his novel (?) begins as such, “Clean, unpolluted, affordable water. There is nothing more important in the world…” Being the substance that it is, water draws attention from human beings naturally because it is crucial for their survival. Ortega employs the use of vivid adjectives such as, “scarce”, “crisis”, “looming”, and “war” to create even more emotion in his reader. Using emotions as a tool, the author can cause the audience an urgency to listen to his argument. As a race that depends on water to live, if we are told that our water supply was to become inadequate, we just might do anything to fix that. An automatic attention grabber.
There you have it. Feedback please :)
I think that you do a good job in your body paragraphs emphasizing the fact that his diction affected the audience's perception of the argument. Water is important, clearly. You're right that it's an automatic attention grabber.
ReplyDeleteDo you agree with the article? I don't particularly agree to be honest. That's my analysis.
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