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Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us What is love like for you? Caitlin Dewey’s purpose of her story is to explain to the audience a time in her life in which she experienced love, and to inform and persuade the reader about her perspective of online and in-real-life relationships. However, most people think that love can’t exist when the majority of that relationship occurs online. Caitlin Dewey shares with us her experience with love: online vs. real life. Dewey has a strong argument because there really is no way that you can argue or disagree with her story since only she has experienced it firsthand. Caitlin Dewey never actually says that she is trying to persuade the reader what to think about love, but is nonetheless …show more content…

When Caitlin Dewey tells about her experiences online and in real life, she uses pathos to convey her feelings between her and Will. Those who have had experiences like Dewey’s can sense the appeal to emotions that her story brings and how others can relate and have the same types of feelings towards the Internet and real life relationships. She uses detail in her story forcing the audience to realize how Caitlin Dewey feels as she experiences different situations. Caitlin Dewey uses very few facts in her writing piece. However, I was unaware of the many occurrences in which it was necessary for this particular story to appeal to logos. Straightforwardly, when Caitlin Dewey actually did use facts to support her argument, the facts themselves did not give off the impression that they had come from a reliable source. For example, Caitlin Dewey stated, “I’ve read that 90 percent of human communication is nonverbal. Skype captures that 90 percent on a low-resolution video camera, compresses it, funnels it to a node computer, and reproduces it on a screen anywhere in the world.” Evidently, Dewey does not mention where she read that percentage and where she came up with that information. Although she stated facts without giving information about how she got it, I do not have the desire to change my opinion about the argument. I don’t believe that Caitlin Dewey had the intention of persuading her

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