I was searching for some blogs similar to my topic on Identity theft and found some interesting things. The two articles I found the most interesting were Students, Grades and Social Security Numbers and Identity theft. I’m going to compare and a do a rhetorical analysis on both the articles.
The first blog was very factual and used more formal writing. It went into the history of social security numbers and explained what they meant to people in the past. This and the mentioning of statistics from The Department of Education provide ethos to the blog post. The post then discusses the harms that Identity theft brings for example “harm it does to your financial future.” It also uses a lot of adjectives though out the post; which brings out the use of pathos in the post. The word “deadbeat” was mentioned a few times, and I found this term in a few other similar posts throughout this blog.
The second blog was much more emotional and less formal. The writer was describing their personal experience with Identity theft. It too used a great number of vivid adjectives and word choice, like: numb, distraught, violated, afraid, wounded, threatened, and more. This was a big use of pathos and makes the readers feel sympathy for the writer. Since it was a Christian blogging site, the writer threw in some religious analogies as well.
Both blogs went into details about how Identity Theft is more emotional and frustrating than the financial problem itself. They both conveyed the message that Identity Theft is not something anyone wants to go through.
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