King Reading To Write Rhetorical Devices

Some of his examples are well known such as Hitler while others were not as popular. This appeals to ethos because it demonstrates King’s palate for quality education, proving his credibility.

This chapter is important in a beginning writer’s process because it helps them to understand the basis of writing, connecting with the reader.

According to King, there are two kinds of writing, bad reading, and good writing. Reading frequently offer you opportunity to avoid bad prose when you are writing, an example of Nobel like Asteroid Miners, and so many more. On the others hand you have, it helps you to learn about the style, the graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. This paragraph is teaching us that, to do something great, we need to put work on

Every word written or read is a chance to better yourself or someone else. Our words carry an enormous significance with them. Even if a person doesn’t enjoy reading or writing, they can not deny that fact. I bring this up because reading and writing has shaped me into the person I am today. So it is no surprise that I am willing to rant about how great reading and writing can be.

Recently, scholars have analyzed King’s (2003) chapter You’ll Never Believe What Happened is Always a Good Way to Start, with the intent to discover King’s rhetorical techniques and overall purpose. At the time of his speech, the world was “predominantly scientific, capitalistic, Judeo-Christian” (p.12). Firstly, Cassandra Plettell (2017) found that King utilizes ethos to demonstrate how stories may alter an individual’s perception (p.2). Similarly, Emma Murphy (2017) found that King uses ethos and pathos that “portrays the idea that stories have the ability to greatly impact individuals’ lives” (p.2). Then, Ajodeji Edna Adetimechin (2017) found that King uses ethos, pathos, and logos to convince his audience of the influential power that stories “have in shaping perspectives” (p.2). In general, they have found that King’s purpose is regarding the influential powers of stories with the use of ethos, pathos and/or logos. In addition to Plettell, Murphy and Adetimechin’s finding, I would like to go a step further and argue that King’s overall purpose is to persuade the audience that the Genesis creation story has formulated a culture that lacks forgiveness, compassion, and unity (King, 2003, pp.24-27). Inclusively, I will argue how King utilizes his personal experiences with stories, emotional appeals, and writing arrangement in order to gradually persuade his highly intellectual audience.

King claims that reading extensively makes for a better writer as through good and bad literature allows a writer to reflect on his own writing and improve his style. Yet Alexie rather is empowered quite differently by the knowledge he gains in reading literature. Alexie went against the stereotype for Indians at the time which still affects not only Indians but non-Indians as well. He is trying to make a point as to why he did not fail in the non-Indian world and that he deserved to succeed given how desperate he felt at times yet he did not accept fate given that he was considered “dangerous” (17). In doing so he works to change and save the lives of Indian kids but is unable to do so for all of them. He says, “They stare out the window. They refuse and resist. ‘Books,’ I say to them. ‘Books,’ I say” (18). Though the idea of empowerment may not be the same, it came from one source – books. This is how “a novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings to…work harder and aim higher” (222), according to King, while a young Alexie “read “Grapes of Wrath” in kindergarten when other children are struggling through “Dick and Jane”” (17). Furthermore, Alexie stood out in a society which rather put him down for his race, which is not an equal comparison to how King stands out for social norms where he would rather read a novel “at meals” which “is considered

By asking this King has readers desiring to change their ways, or at least take a stand on the topic. Through his use of rhetorical questioning King makes his audience feel the familiar pang of missed opportunity. This regret emotionally ties readers to the text, thus drawing in their support to King’s argument that television is corruptive to reading and writing

Thesis: King brilliantly applies rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos and ethos that are crucial in successfully influencing detractors of his philosophical views on civil disobedience.

Then, wathe appeals that King had used throughout the letter were both ethos and pathos. King’s usage of words were persuasive. King used ethos because, King makes his text credible to his audience since they are clergymen they will all relate to these other clergymen and it will follow what they have studied as religious leaders as he talks to them by saying, “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms” (King 1061) showing how he feels about them the

King’s effort to establish his credibility is widely recognized within his letter to the clergymen. Using King’s opening, he begins with “My Dear Fellow Clergymen:” (1). By starting his letter this way, King places himself among the clergymen without making himself be better or worse than them. If King had started off his letter differently, his appeal to ethos to prove his credibility might not have been as strong. Shortly after, King brings up the level of his status within a widely affiliated leadership group. King

King’s tone appears outwardly polite and deferential. However, the first hint of irony is when he uses ‘secretary’ in the plural, suggesting that he considers himself above them in material means. however, at the end of the first paragraph, he writes that he would try and answer their criticism in ‘patient’ terms. Since we are normally the most patient with people below our mental level, this changes his tone to tolerant and somewhat condescending, suggesting that he is doing them a great favor by taking the time to ‘answer their statement.’

Orhan Pamuk once said, “The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.” The writer’s general purpose is to determine the expertise that he wants to apply in his writing. The writer’s purpose and organization of writing is to persuade, entertain, inform, and draws the reader’s attention to the information. In the same way, the readers’ goals are reading the content, of seeking information, and increasing knowledge through reading. In these three articles, the authors have specific purpose and discipline the specific futures, and the reader's goal is to collect the noteworthy information. The first article, “The Nature of

Dr. King uses the three techniques of ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos appeals to the credibility of the author while pathos means to persuade by appealing to the reader’s emotions. The last appeal is a logos which is used to persuade using logical reasoning. There are numerous examples in this piece that prove these methods to be effective; and King's use of these strategies demonstrates his gifts as a speaker and empowers him to connect with his readers in an intelligent manner.

Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”

One key passage where King defines writing is when he is describing the revising process. King writes,