Rehotorical Journal Assignment #2

Journal Blog Assignment #2

In the article “Reforming Big Time College Sports” written by Tom Price, he uses an informative style of writing. His main focus is on how major colleges perform major recruiting violations. He just tells story after story of how a lot of major schools recruit illegally. Price’s main argument is that it is not morally correct to recruit illegally but everybody does it. I specifically remember him saying that only one school is not currently on probation for a recruiting violation. He uses some pathos because he even describes some of the things that went on like the school providing stripers and sex for recruit’s visits. He goes into that much detail so that he effects your emotions and you realize how wrong that really was to do.

He tries to gain credibility from the audience by using some articles from some very well respected sources. Price talks about the well-known Colorado scandal right in the beginning of the paper to gain credibility because most people have heard about that and have strong feelings about how horrible that was. That means that most people will have the same opinion as him on that specific topic. This type of writing is using ethos to gain credibility so that the audience trusts his opinion. He than continues on throughout the article to use logos in his writing because everything he says is factual and actually did happen.

He uses all of these rhetorical appeals to write in an informative style, which that hopefully the audience agrees with his opinion. He uses strictly factual information and violations that colleges actually committed to inform the audience about this serious problem.