Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Menchken /Vs/ Kroll



Write a Contrast Paragraph on the Effectiveness of the Two Death Penalty Essays. Which of the Two - Mencken or Kroll - Do you Find to be More Effective in Persuading you and Why? 
Because of the effectiveness of both essays in illustrating their points about the Death Penalty, it is hard to come to an accurate conclusion about which one is more effective. 
Mencken and Kroll wrote from two different writing styles and two different points of view, neither of which paralleled the other. Kroll uses appeals to emotion and credibility but succumbing to argument ad authoriatrium and other fallacies to which he uses to make his point. In contrast, Mencken wrote his work with an appeal to logisitcs using statistical information to back up his points.  Despite Krolls many appeals to credibility that most would argue causes him to be reliable and effective, he commited many fallacies that could be easily shot holes through when taken into any sense of meaning beyond the bare surface. As a result, i found Mencken's uniform, yet logical and presis essay much more effective in convincing me as it did not commit to as many fallacies and the evidence was more concrete. 

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