As he develops his plot in this writing, Webb uses the listing technique to list the four major reasons, that he believes, is the reason that soccer is ruining America. Lists are known to provide simple, concise, and easy information that the readers can follow. He can be seen connecting Soccer to Christianity and what God has said in the Bible. He uses this as logos in providing information from the text in the Bible, to support another claim that feet are a sign of disrespect, and hands are divine. As the writing peace comes to a close, the authors sarcastic tone and point of view are shown. He provides personal pronouns while telling the audience who he is and what he does. Then ends the writing, in a twist, contradicting everything he has previously said. He states, that at his daughters soccer games, he sits on the sidelines and reads quietly. That is his contribution to the protest of how soccer is ruining America. This last sentence proposes the underlying factor that he was being sarcastic and completely ridiculous in all of his previous statements. He is using a sarcastic humor to dumbfound his readers which is contrary to his previous statements.
Dr. Webb made references to several elements of rhetoric in his passage titled, "Soccer Is Ruining America". Firstly, he uses several rhetorical questions throughout his writing, for example, "What other game, to put it bluntly, is so boring to watch?" This was a statement made to suggest the claim he created that Soccer is indeed a boring game. He followed this with his own data to support his created claim. He can be also seen comparing the sport of soccer to, "The rocking of a boat without any storm and while the boat has not even left the dock." In the first paragraph of this writing, Dr. Webb has clearly stated his beliefs on soccer and why he does not particularly like it.
As he develops his plot in this writing, Webb uses the listing technique to list the four major reasons, that he believes, is the reason that soccer is ruining America. Lists are known to provide simple, concise, and easy information that the readers can follow. He can be seen connecting Soccer to Christianity and what God has said in the Bible. He uses this as logos in providing information from the text in the Bible, to support another claim that feet are a sign of disrespect, and hands are divine. As the writing peace comes to a close, the authors sarcastic tone and point of view are shown. He provides personal pronouns while telling the audience who he is and what he does. Then ends the writing, in a twist, contradicting everything he has previously said. He states, that at his daughters soccer games, he sits on the sidelines and reads quietly. That is his contribution to the protest of how soccer is ruining America. This last sentence proposes the underlying factor that he was being sarcastic and completely ridiculous in all of his previous statements. He is using a sarcastic humor to dumbfound his readers which is contrary to his previous statements.
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Mr. W
1/29/2015 04:05:21 am
This response is very light-weight, and doesn't get into the analysis of Webb's strategies and techniques. For example, you say he that Webb, "...provides personal pronouns while telling the audience who he is and what he does" yet you don't analyze any of the personal pronouns nor even explain why he does this. Sentences like, "As the writing peace comes to a close, the authors sarcastic tone and point of view are shown" mar the meaning of the piece with misused words such as "peace" for peace. My guess is that you can do a lot better than this...
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