Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Driving to the Funeral-questions

1. Some logical statistics in this reading is that they give proof that younger people who drive get in more accidents. Here is a quotes "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that neophyte drivers of 17 have about a third as many accidents as their counterparts only a year younger." Here is another quote "any reasonable person would respond that a 13-year-old is too young. But statistics suggest that that’s true of 16-year-olds as well." Some facts that she uses in the reading is "in Massachusetts alone, one third of 16-year-old drivers have been involved in serious accidents."
2. A rhetorical question that she used in the reading is "If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid, wouldn’t you do something about that?" An emotion that she uses in this reading is "It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities, the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror."
3. Credibility in this reading is that she says an opinion and then she backs it up with facts and statistics. How she might deal with threat to credibility is she just doesn't deal with it.
4. I thought that she wasn't that persuasive because she was to straight forward and i really don't think that she did a good job. I thought that if she talked to teenagers then it might have been better.

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