Collapse Subdiscussion Chi Pham Chi Pham Yesterday Sep 3 at 11:31pm
I thought Tim Chartier's article, "USA's First Olympic Gold Of The Summer, In Math" was well written in demonstrating its argument of persuading the reader to train and improve his/her math skills. Three rhetorical strategies I believed the author used were analogy, antanagoge, and enumeration.
"Still, a child imagines a goal on the playground basketball court as the winning shot for team USA" is an example of an analogy. I think this strengthens the argument because it alerts the reader to the fact that although you may not have extreme athleticism or intelligence of an Olympian in a sports event or a math competition, you
