‘Psst! Need the Answer .to No. 7? Click Here’ – Lisa W. Foderado
`In this short piece of investigative journalism Foderado shines a light onto the burgeoning internet industry of online student help sites in an attempt to gauge their probity and integrity. The article’s main rhetorical device is logos, because Federado provides evidence for everything she write and there is little appeal to our emotions (pathos) and little sense of the writer’s apparent character (ethos): almost everything in the article is subsumed beneath the evidence that the writer presents in order to support all her observations. In this sense the article is a very balanced piece of journalism: it presents ...
