The purpose of The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is to help with the process of protecting the health of the American people. The CDC has created a website that focuses on the childhood neurodevelopmental disorder, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This website caters to those who need to be better informed about ADHD when it comes to diagnosis, treatments, and other important facts. The Center for Disease Controls and Prevention website was purposed to reach people through rhetorical appeals such as; ethos, pathos, and logos. In today’s society where everyone deems themselves an expert, it is difficult to find credible information. Anyone can create a website and call it “credible” but that does not make it true. Which is why websites like the Center for Disease Control Prevention, which uses an ethos rhetorical appeal is so important. Ethos is an appeal used by speakers or writers in order to convey a certain message or give credible information. The CDC’s article on Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder applies to this appeal because it is informing its audience about the condition of ADHD. Its website is one that is not only credible because of its approach on ADHD, but it is a government …show more content…
They acknowledge that Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a real disorder that is affecting many people's lives, daily. And in some way, everyone is connected to this issue, whether it is someone’s child, a close family friend, everyone has seen the emotional effects this disorder has one people. The CDC goes so much into its use of pathos that it even talks about why people end up being diagnosed with ADHD. These facts are used to grab the reader by their heart strings. Not only does the CDC give facts about the diagnosis, it provides its reader with different ways to support or become more comfortable with what ADHD