Sample Argument with Pathos

For my sample argument with pathos I picked an article from USA Today called "Mongrel owners, unite!: New Mutt-i-grees Club raising awareness, respect for the mystery breeds." It is an argument to inform readers of the new Mutt-i-grees Club that is trying to raise awareness about mixed-breeds and to elevate the public's perception of them. It uses pathos because it evokes emotional feelings in the reader. It produces sad emotion when it describes the obvious preference of purebreds over mixed-breeds which is apparent at the compared percentages of those that are euthanized in shelters, but it then produces a happy emotion at the many steps being taken to elevate the status of mixed-breeds. In addition, this article is also an argument to convince future dog owners to seriously consider going to the shelter to adopt a mixed-breed animal instead of a breeder for a purebred. This article is an argument about the present and future since it may persuade the reader to take action today or in a couple years.

Introduction Entry

Hi, my name is Michelle. I am from Coppell, Texas, and I am a sophomore at Texas Christian University. I am currently working towards a degree in Nursing, and as of right now, I hope to become a labor and delivery nurse.

I chose to take this writing course because it is required of me, but by taking it, I hope to become a better writer. I hope to be able to quickly organize my thoughts about a topic and be able to write an essay about it.

Right now, most of my writing is in e-mails and text messages. I contact both of my parents daily through emailing, and I text my friends often throughout the day. I feel like my grammar and spelling are pretty good, but I feel a little shaky when it comes to writing papers that are being graded. I feel like I don't really know what to say or how to say it- I don't feel like it is easy for me to put my feelings onto a paper while still keeping the paper professional-sounding.

I don't believe that I am very interested in politics, but that is probably because I don't really understand it. I think this is definitely an area that I need to become more involved in because the only thing I am really interested in is the presidential election.

Since I am making this blog before reading Chapter one of the text, I don't really understand exactly how this blog is an argument. I just looked up a definition of argument, and it said a , " discussion involving differing points of view." Everyone creating a blog today, will have different interests and different view points, and by reading each other's blogs and exchanging these different interests and view points, one could infer that we are all arguing.

I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus.