Like the vast majority of scientific, scholarly journal articles, this argument strays from the utilization of emotional arguments. Rather, the argument is based heavily in logos, created through the presentation and analysis of the current study’s data. The argument also gains a considerable amount of ethos over the course of the paper through a variety of appeals and techniques. As was stated, this journal article uses very few emotional appeals; the argument is focused in the logical presentation and evaluation of the researchers’ data. However, in providing example first-person responses offered as answers to the children of the study, the authors have created a small emotional appeal to the audience. Presenting example sentences such as “my parents have their own problems, so I don't bother them with mine” (Qin et al. 1710) and “my parents and I decide together” (Qin et al. 1709), the authors find success in putting the reader in the shoes of the children, helping to paint a better picture of what the children’s response data truly means while also making the reader feel for the children, minorly increasing the pathos of the argument. …show more content…
Even before the researchers’ study was properly introduced in the body of the essay, the argument is formed around logical arguments — the inartistic proofs of facts and findings from other studies. Then, when the argument transitions into presenting and discussing the authors’ new study, the article’s fundamental claim is constructed out of still logical arguments; the study’s inartistic proofs of facts and findings are analyzed by the researchers who — using artistic proofs with common sense and reasoning — derive the fundamental claim from this data for the readers. This section also uses a plethora of other studies’ inartistic findings to reinforce the statistics found within the researchers’ new