Rhetorical Analysis on “Reverse the Post-Truth in Healthcare”
Nancy Beck recently shared her opinion over the topic of post-truth in the healthcare field and uses an extensive amount of strategies from the rhetorical triangle to justify her opinions. The American healthcare system has many positives, yet also has many flaws. By using the rhetorical strategies, especially logos, Beck is able to form her opinions into a deep, descriptive, and informative essay over her thoughts on the issue today. She is not afraid to openly explain her frustration and back it up with factual information from credible sources which forms a strong rhetorical analysis. The following is a brief synopsis of myself critiquing her article “Reverse the Post-Truth in
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The building of bricks (frustration of health care system stacked up) eventually couldn’t keep it together anymore and came crashing to the ground which is the pinnacle of her anger where she wrote this informative article. One of the key concepts she stressed was about the post-truth over what causes cancer. Recently, people have been told that things such as using your phone, eating meats such as chicken, and drinking anything that is hot like coffee can increase your chance for developing cancer. This statement uses the pathos strategy as it tugs at the reader and scares them into thinking their everyday tasks could make them develop this horrible disease. Personally, I feel that this can not be true as ninety plus percentage of the American population uses a phone in their everyday life, where in reality cancer only impacts a small majority. Beck feels the same way as myself, and here are some of her explanations that also use rhetorical analysis …show more content…
“Reverse the Post-Truth in Healthcare” (found on The Hill) can be considered an opinionated genre. It was written by Nancy Beck who was given the title of Opinion Contributor. As much as this article was very well written through the rhetorical strategies, it lacked one major thing, a sense of validity. Nancy Beck was a strong, smart woman but she did not have any background knowledge or experience in the healthcare profession. She had great statements but were only supported by opinion, and not factual