Notes

Another rhetorical device Cangialosi uses in her article is the use of credible sources. She uses her peer writing, poet’s work, and research to logically explain her statement that writing helps you be healthier. Peer writing is used as supporting examples to show the audience how writing releases undiscovered emotions and help people visually see and learn, which leads to healing. She uses short works of Diana Medlin and Santi Messina to best portray in examples. Another way she uses credible sources is by using the thoughts shared by famous poets to strengthen her argument. She uses words such as “famous” to add emphasis to the credibility of EE Cummings, as shown, “The famous American poet, EE Cummings, said,’To be nobody-but-yourself-in the world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight…’” (Cangialosi, 425). She also makes it though that someone as credible as EE Cummings would agree with her by stating she, Karen Cangialosi, agrees with EE Cummings n that people need to fight their own battles, but she twists it to fit her argument by stating that people need to know their battles before they can fight them. The final way she used credible sources is by using research and statistics. She first states why the credentials are valued before presenting the research, such as the following example. “In his 1990 book, Opening Up, James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D., first published his findings of how expressing emotions through writing affects the immune system.” (Cangialosi, 429).