Ross Douthat Rhetorical Analysis - 1335 Words

Even though Ross Douthat covers a wide range of topics he tends to start out with his main point or theme. He will argue his point until he feels that he has convinced his audience of at least understanding his point of view even if it doesn’t change their own opinion. He has showed that he wants his audience to agree with him on every topic that I have read since he argues his point and puts his opinion into his writing. While he’s trying to get his audience to agree with him, he makes it easy to follow what he’s saying, because he wants you to understand what he is saying and what he means when he says it so that you will be more likely to agree with his opinion. When Douthat is arguing his point it’s normally organized and rarely jumps†¦show more content†¦Douthat tends to speak a lot as an individual rather than a group, because he’s very opinionated he tries to let his opinion be known and he wants them to know that his opinion is also backed with some facts he tries really hard to always have some proof on why his opinion is true, but sometimes it is just an opinion that can’t be backed by any proof (Like a political stance). When Douthat writes he is good at keeping his emotion out of what he is writing, unless it gets personal or if he strongly doesn’t like something about it. There have been a few times when he put his personal opinion into the paper and then continued talking about it before he stated another fact or source. When Douthat starts talking about politics, especially about Trump, he starts to describe them with more opinionated ways than factual ways, for example, in his article, â€Å"Trump’s Empty Culture Wars†, (09/27/17), he says, â€Å"Unfortunately for us all Donald Trump is a master, a virtuoso, of the second kind of culture war - and a master, too, of taking social and cultural debates that could be important and necessary and making them stupider and emptier and all about himself† Which shows his opinion very heavily