Response to NPR’s ‘The Real CSI’
From the start, the title pulls you in based on assumed knowledge that the reader has some concept of CSI and that it stands to be corrected. Pathos is used predominantly throughout the article, holding the reader’s attention. Statistics were followed by cringe-worthy individual accounts and contrasted with what is presented on CSI based shows. Logos was used in their presentation of facts and statistics (I didn’t fact check them) along with quotes from experts. Overall the articles purpose was to persuade though it floundered in the last section when presenting methods of improving the flaws and corruption in the system. The effort put in these last few paragraph did not compare to previous, hurried and underdeveloped making for a weak close.