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Summary Of Ocean Pollution

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This article, “Oceans of Pollution” is written by Dahr Jamail. He presents this article with many details to support his argument. Two main topics with support are used, which is how plastic is causing a great pollution affecting the fertility rates of the fish because fish can ingest tiny sizes of plastic therefore harming the creatures. As well, another topic in this article is the dead zone affecting the ocean, caused by natural environment, climate changing the temperature and human factors. This article mainly presents this article to the government to suggest for change and to humans, many who are biologists, who care about this huge problem. With the intensity of the ocean’s pollution, the article uses three rhetorical topics, pathos, …show more content…

For the audience or reader, what exerts emotions most is the pictures shown. The writer tries to bring the emotional side of readers to show how great of an issue plastics are, damaging the world and affecting humans. Not only do the pictures shown have to be useful, but the how the article writes the article as well. The quotes “Every tear you cry… ends up back in the ocean system…. Every second breath you take comes from the ocean produced by planktons” (para 5 of Intro) from Alanna Mitchell, and “The algae then die and sink to the bottom, where bacteria eat them and deplete the water of oxygen … so sea life suffocates and dies if it’s unable to swim away” (para 6 of Dead Zone) from Matt Rota, both show strong vivid description of the ocean and sea life. One way to improve the article is to change the tone, although many writings from the article are quotes from scientists and expertise, it uses supporting evidence only and from one point of view only, in a way to say it is human activity causing pollutions. However, pathos increases the quality greatly by adding emotional pictures for readers’ to know what is …show more content…

Ethos include how well the article is edited, who the author is and how the writer presents the article. Damhr Jamail is a journalist for this magazine Al Jazeera, which mainly reports news for the Middle East. Although this article does not include an editor’s name, however, the article is written well, and contains no grammatical errors. In the article, Jamail can improve his point of view easily by the uses of many quotes, sources and reference only to support his thoughts, he stands on one side but does not argue another side to the topic. As well, in many of the paragraphs, he include as the first sentence “The most obvious…” which is not professional enough for the article. The writer includes many quotes and references from professional scientist and researchers to strengthen credibility of the

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