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On August 22, 2016, Washington State University became a tobacco and nicotine free campus. The reason for this new change is the university wants to “focus on the promotion of tobacco and nicotine cessation programs form students, faculty, and staff” (EHS). When the new policy became in effect the Environment Health and safety came out with two documents. One document, EHS Announcement, gave an announcement about the new law that is enforced on campus now. In the other document, SPPM 6.10, goes into depth about the change on campus. Each piece is informative and share similar characterizes. Both documents have the same author, Environmental Health, and Safety. In both the documents the indented readers of people of Washington State …show more content…

This change maybe takes an emotional toll on some people so by putting the health and wellness centers website on their it integrates pathos into the text. This appeal could be strengthening by adding some sort of statement from the wellness center stating that they are they to help you with the change or some thong across those lines. It could bring out that emotional appeal and grab the reader’s attention even more. Logos could be integrated into this text by giving factual information about this change. Something along the lines of how many people are affected by this change or maybe a chart that shows the improvement to our campus by having this change.
The SPPM 6.10 is a manual of the new change. It doesn’t go into detail about the history of the change rather than breaking down the terms and what it means. The text defines terms like public place and place of employment. A public place is defined as “means that portion of any WSU owned, leased, or rented building or vehicle, and includes a minimum distance of 25 feet from Entrances, Exits, Windows that open, and Ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited (SPPM 6.10 manual).” By defining the terms, it helps the reader understand more about the change and it will help them later on. With this text, the reader isn’t supposed to respond or act on the information given unless it relates to them in a way. A non-smoker needs to

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