Question

Identify five different persuasive strategies in "What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture."

For each persuasive technique, you identify, discuss its effectiveness. Why do you think the writer chose this particular technique for this particular subject, goal, audience, etc.? Do you think it's effective? Why or why not?

Answer 1

One of the persuasive techniques used here is sharing experience in life. Real-life experience when shared by an author is always accepted by the reader's mind and is highly persuasive because the matter has written is true and has happened in one's life which is not fabricated and can happen to self as well. Another persuasive technique is an in-depth analysis of the topic of educating the reader regarding the origin of gun culture. This aspect is persuasive as many of us will not have an idea of gun culture and would be excited to know more about it which in turn becomes persuasive. Featuring more of demerits and less of merits associated with gun culture is yet another persuasive pattern. Any article that is found to criticize a tradition would highlight both merits and demerits. If any of these is highlighted more then the writing becomes persuasive as the reader would make his thinking regarding the tradition travel in the same direction as that of the author. I think that these persuasive techniques are very much helpful. However, a change in society will not happen all of a sudden even if the entire population in a society reads the article. The change can happen only when the point is accepted by the government and stringent rules concerning gun freedom are brought into power.