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Rhetorical Analysis Of Station Eleven

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My Rhetorical Analysis Paper focused on language in specific quotes that I pulled from the class text, Station Eleven. I wanted to take a different approach when I came face to face with my RIP Project. I did incorporate the use of specific language in order to convey a message, but I wanted to focus more on establishing pathos, ethos, and logos since I did not talk about these in my RA. I was able to be creative as I portrayed myself as the rhetor in my pharmaceutical cover letter. I made an appeal to ethos as I listed the different levels of education I have gone through and my professional experience within the company. I made an appeal to pathos by directly targeting a doctor with my pharmaceutical cover letter. Pathos and logos have become

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