● “Should I Report the Biased Remarks of a Campus Cop?”
As you analyze your article of choice, make sure to keep in mind our practice on effective summary, quoting, and paraphrasing to represent the author’s points accurately.
It is also important to keep in mind that an argument may not or cannot be effective in its entirety (in terms of ethos and pathos), so your thesis statement can (and/or should) express degrees of effectiveness as it assesses the appeal to credibility and emotions. For example, you might say that the author’s appeal to pathos/ethos is fairly effective, somewhat effective, somewhat ineffective, mostly ineffective, and so on.
