A Multidisciplinary Defense Of The Gaseous Vent Theory

In scientific writing being able to identify and use audience, context, and purpose correctly in scientific writing is very helpful in providing what the specific paper will be about (context), who it is targeted toward (audience), and what is the reasoning behind the given section of a reading (purpose). Aristotle was once quoted saying, “Rhetoric is the art of seeing, in any given case, the available means of persuasion.” Being able to dissect someone's stance on an argument is a very important skill to have. Just because someone is able to publish a paper on a certain topic does not mean you should immediately accept everything in that paper. In the scientific journal titled, “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary defense of the Gaseous

Starting the essay is always the most important part because the writer must engage fully with their audience doing their best to relate the the reader through emotion, also referred to as pathos. Pathos is used to grab the reader's attention through using a specific emotion, value, or belief. In the scientific journal article titled, “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory,” which can be found in the scientific journal titled “Clinical Toxicology,” the author uses pathos by talking about a chosen person in ancient Greece that has the ability of an oracle, which can predict the future and profess prophecies. This is a use of a pathos which appeals to a sympathetic imagination of the reader. A use of this text would be the very first sentence of the introduction into the paper that wrote, “Oracles were used in the ancient world to gain insight to the future. Oracles were believed to have unique access to the gods of a particular religion and through this access were often able to see into the future” and how the priestess would sit on a fissure and breathe in this vapor that came from the ground which would inspire her

The use of ethos and pathos at the beginning of the paper helped to grab the viewer's attention by talking about mysterious folklore and talks of ancient texts and the adventure of exploring actual geographical location in the location of the famous priestess. The authors then go to back up their research through the use of ethos talking about where they got all this information and what they needed to research to get to the bottom of this mystery. The writers go into the depth talking about the mystery gas that was similar to modern day anesthesia gasses. Being able to directly compare the effects of the mystery gasses in the ancient text to what the known gas main side effects are, “the second description is that of an apparently rare event of a delirious, ataxic, and combative woman, described as in a frenzy. Both descriptions are consistent with intoxication by