Out of all the texts, I found the opinion piece about Panda’s arrival at the Calgary Zoo to be the most persuasive. This is due to the techniques present in the piece, such as rhetorical questions and explicitly stated facts. The piece starts out with the rhetorical question, “How safe will they be?” referring to the pandas. When met with this question, the reader is expected to question the safety of the zoo and wonder why the pandas may not be safe there, setting the stage for future persuasions. After this, the piece brings up the serial deaths of animals occurring at the Calgary Zoo and uses explicitly stated facts to display just how serious the situation is. It provides the reader with the number of deaths occurring in the zoo and the