Speaker: Educator or critic
Occasion: People are getting worse at writing
Audience: Writers, students, anybody who writes badly
Purpose: People sound dumb when using the four main subjects mentioned in the paper
Subject: Things people use in writings that make them sound bad
Ethos:
- George Orwell shows quotes that are bad examples of the subject
- All four of the quotes are prime examples of how not to write in the opinion of Orwell.
Pathos:
- Orwell uses emotion to show his frustration and opinion on writing.
- “It is easier- even quicker, once you have the habit- to say in my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say/think”
Logos
- Orwell uses statistical evidence to show why the 4 examples in the beginning are badly written.
- “Professor Laski (1) uses five negatives in 53 words.”
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