Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Research Paper Draft 1 Reflection

Shahadat Rahman
English 21003
Professor Nargiza Matyakubova
1 November, 2017
Reflection on Draft
This assignment allowed me to become more efficient in thinking about ethos, pathos, and logos when considering the value of research sources. There are a plethora of sources available on healthcare and its implications, but most of them provide only statistics. Although these are helpful and give a form of credibility, they provide little emotional appeal. That is why I turned to personal interviews. They are primary sources that provide credibility and they are also able to provide emotional appeal. Instead of reading obscenely long scientific articles filled with copious amounts of information, I am able to find the sections of articles I need. Indeed, I have become more efficient in reading scientific articles, as I now know where specific information can be found in specific parts of a report or other forms of scientific writing.
This paper also aided me in providing an emotional appeal without necessarily providing any bias. Healthcare is an important topic and affects everyone. I needed to emphasize this, especially emotionally, without providing any of my own opinions on the subject. This also includes minor adjectives that could sway an audience to perceive a term or event in a way it objectively is not. Instead I had to rely on evidence to provide this appeal, rather than my own style or writing. It highlights the difference in writing in a scientific format as opposed to other forms.


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