Rhetorical Analysis Of Every Kid Needs A Champion By Rita Pierson

Rita Pierson, an educator of 40 years, as was her parents were as well as her grandparents. She appeals to educators on the issue of creating relationships with students, rather than just teaching a lesson she embraces each individual as a concerned educator. Being in a room full of educators means that she has to appeal to them in a way they want to learn. She does this by using powerful anecdotes to engage the audience. In the speech Every Kid Needs a Champion by Rita Pierson, she speaks to introduce, convince, and persuade educators that they should form relationships with their students due to higher academic achievement as well as self-esteem; she continues to use many rhetorical devices including soaps, ethos, pathos, and logos to achieve her argument. Rita Pierson employs her argument by utilizing the rhetorical devices of repetition where she states, “ Ispent life in the

They teach anyways because that is what they do. She appeals to them by the use of logos with addressing teaching is a hard job, but not impossible. They can do it, they are educators. Born to make a difference. This encourages the educators to want to form relationships. She urges the educators to believe in forming relationships with their students to boost their academic achievements, as well as their self esteem. She later gives her audience the ultimatum of they can either choose to form connections with their students or not. For peirson she engages the audience with her appeals, making them feel as if they were important and they were not being talked down to. She strengthens her argument by drawing in the audience while not diminishing her credibility in her argument of, teachers need to form relationships with their students to achieve a higher academic rate and self