Reading

     The article I read was "10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day" from lifehack.org. The subject was the benefits of reading and the purpose of this article was to encourage people to read everyday. The audience was really just anyone who does not read much. The author mostly appeals to logos by mentioning benefits and some statistics even. The author has some appeal to pathos by mentioning how much better life could become with the benefits of reading. The author does not really appeal to ethos though. 

     I personally find the argument to be far to generalized. The author specifies that things like Facebook posts and tweets are not really as beneficial to one's mind as say a novel, but shows basically no distinction between books. This lack of distinction could imply that one could get the same benefits from reading an incredibly simple book like Dr. Seuss or a book which they can not comprehend at all and still get the same benefits as if they were reading an book of appropriate difficulty. Also in some areas she clearly distinguishes why TV could not be a substitute but in others she leaves it so open ended that even TV could work, like tranquility or even free entertainment, depending on what equipment you have, since many libraries have a DVD section. Otherwise it was decently argued.