Analyzing Appeals Use the drop-down menus to analyze the writer's use
of persuasive strategies.
In the first paragraph, the writer quotes an expert to
We are faced, according to Dr. Elton, "with a life-and-
death need not just to find new technological means of
suppressing this plant or that animal"; instead we need
the basic knowledge of animal populations and their
relations to their surroundings that will “promote an even
balance and damp down the explosive power of outbreaks
and new invasions."
Much of the necessary knowledge is now available but we
do not use it.. We allow the chemical death rain to fall
as though there were no alternative, whereas in fact there
are many, and our ingenuity could soon discover many
more if given opportunity.
-Silent Spring,
Rachel Carson
After presenting a possible solution, the writer then
claims we do not use the knowledge we have, making
the assumption that people
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