This strategy engages readers from the start. By beginning with a real-life example and addressing the reader directly, the writer immediately emphasizes Desmond’s hard-hitting point. end annotated textĪnnotated text Introductory Anecdote. By mentioning Desmond’s qualifications as an ethnographer, Eliana Evans appeals to ethos: Desmond is an authority whose opinions can be taken seriously. end public domain textĪnnotated text Ethos. As an ethnographer, Desmond gathers research to promote the study and documentation of human culture: how people live under all kinds of conditions. In his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, ethnographer and author Matthew Desmond follows eight poor families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they struggle to establish and maintain one of humanity’s most basic needs: housing. Unfortunately, many of the nation’s poor don’t have to imagine this troubling scenario because this is their reality. The remaining $87 must be divided among food, utilities, childcare, and medical treatment. Now, imagine that $550 will go toward rent, leaving only a small amount for everything else. One American worker picks up her check for $637. Public domain textImagine it’s Friday-payday. (credit: “Matthew Desmond at 2017 National Book Festival” by United States Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) Living by Their Own Words Story as Persuasion Figure 9.6 Matthew Desmond discusses Evicted at the Library of Congress.
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