The most stylistically poor text is Ralph Waldo Emerson from “On Education” because it demonstrates a bad style of writing that makes the audience not intrigued in reading the excerpt. Emerson’s excerpt seems to have a cluster of sentences with too much information and wordiness. He writes sentences where he adds several unnecessary commas and semicolons; his non-concise use of words show that the sentences drag on longer than they would need to. Emerson should take the sentences apart and create simple sentences to ensure the reader can easily understand the text. The audience might get lost in the amount of words he uses to describe education. Emerson illustrates a stylistically poor text because he bores the reader. I did not feel attached …show more content…
Einstein illustrates the most rhetorically excellent text because he is a credible source when writing about education. Einstein is questionably one of the smartest humans who has ever lived and his ideas on education form a credibly that the audience believes. Credibly is one of the ways the writer persuades the audience to become interested and convinced. The art of persuasion in rhetoric shows authority by the audience being convinced that Einstein is qualified enough to speak about the topic of education. The credibility and authority aspect of rhetoric are both involved in Ethos. The text includes Pathos where Einstein appeals to the audience’s emotions. The audience displays sympathy to the generation today. The sympathy is towards the new generation because the old generation’s knowledge is stronger and better than the education the generation today receives. Einstein persuades the audience by drawing in emotion to strongly convince the reader that the new generation is not equal to the old generation. Albert Einstein did not stand out stylistically because the excerpt includes some grammatical errors and syntax errors. The style that Einstein presents does not meet the greatest style because the excerpt does include some