Rhetorical Analysis 1

Rhetorical Analysis:
Mechanical Engineering

Ezekiel Lang
The University of Texas at El Paso
RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
October 1, 2019
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Mechanical Engineer

Thesis

The claim for this subject is that people do not need all three of the core pillars of

persuasion to make people to come to a common argument. An author whose name is Monte

Calvert wrote a book discussion how people in American at once upon a time degraded

mechanical engineers as a career job, and in his book, he used a lot of credible and logistic things

in that book. Calvert use little to none emotional facts to try to persuade his audience.

Killingsworth

Greek philosopher Aristotle compiled his thoughts on the art of rhetoric into a Rhetoric

Argument, including his theory on the three persuasive appeals. After Reading Killingsworth

article It made me feel that all three of the core pillars of persuasion is not really needed for a

good persuasive appeal to the audience, if two out of the three is valid throughout the writing that

should be able to write a good persuasive appeal topic. The three core pillars of persuasion are

Ethos, Logos, Pathos. Ethos cover the author credibility to see how reliable the author sources

are. logos is the most important one to me because it covers the logic of an argument. Aristotle

stated, “Persuasion occurs through the arguments when we show the truth or the apparent truth

from whatever is persuasive in each case,” in other words people will make decisions based on

what makes the most sense. Pathos is tapping into the audience emotionally, because we believe

if a speaker can emotionally evoke feelings of connection that will motivate people to act and

prescribe to the speaker’s thoughts and positions. We have “Logic, Emotion, and Credibility.”

The goal of all documentations is to appeal to their audience, and I feel if u have 2 of 3 that could

help the audience in which the speaker is talking to make their mind on a topic argument.
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Calvert describe how the life of mechanical engineer could be dirty and messy at times,

but it is truly a real profession of life. At once upon a time people classified mechanical work as

just a talent until the industrial era. Even though they were not sure the profession status, the

sociologists and historians disagreed on the attributes of the mechanical engineering

professionalism. Because they studied occupations in terms like the mechanical engineering

talents.

Audience

The people who the author is writing this book for is people whose thinking of becoming

an engineer or people that are concerned in engineer being a profession. The author basically

argues on how people view mechanical engineering as a profession.

Ethos

The creditability this book have is really held high on a pedal stool based of the

knowledgeable sources and the publisher press. This book was published by a university that was

founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously running university press, The Johns Hopkins

Press, Baltimore. This Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases. This press

contends for America's largest university press. The press headquarters are in Charles Village,

Baltimore. With this being the longest running university press in the world now, this says a lot

because it was the first and the longest. A few of Monte Sources was from many professors and

staffs at the University of Pittsburgh library, Navy Department Library, Cornell University in

Ithaca, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and there are a lot more credible source

in his book. This book by Monte Calvert must have high standards because of the publishing

press and all the credible source he went through to get his knowledge from for his book. The
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press and sources must felt that we the people should be inform of Monte Calvert finding and

documentation.

Pathos

Throughout my book by Monte Calvert, he showed little to no emotion. But I feel like he

was determined to share with us as the people how the profession of mechanical engineering had

to fight its way to be a real profession over the years. So, I’m guessing he’s upset or irritated on

how this profession have been getting down-played or degraded by other occupation and

scientists. Because they do just as much as a doctor, police officer, lawyer, or even a judge. An

engineer is someone who make thing easy even life, and with mechanical engineers the make life

easy because of transportation, from railroads, cars, bikes, and even planes. All of them items

make transportation easy and faster, with all the improvements to them [Make sure to include

your parenthetical citations and your warrants]

Logos

Logos play a big role in Monte Calvert novel. Calvert uses the industrial era as his opener

to this novel. He states a lot of facts in the book such as, “from 1790 to1840 the United States

was in preparation for an industrial take-off period in which mechanic shops played a vital role”

(ch.1). But mechanic shops along with railroad shops and naval engineering was the most

important mechanical engineers in the big industrial time period. Monte even stated that the

development of mechanical engineering is broken up in three parts (ch.4). Part one, “Origins,”

that he stated talks about the social, occupational, and the cultural milieu from which the

emerged of this specialization and differentiation within the industrial world. Part two, “Internal
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Development,” will basically trace the development of mechanical engineering education and

profession associations as formal influence on professionalism. Part three, “External

Relationships,” this is just explaining how part one and part will affect its practitioners in their

relationship with nonprofessionals in mechanical occupation.

Conclusion

Understanding genres can help with the rhetorical appeal, as demonstrated in the book,

can great aid the speed of research. Which not understanding can cause students to waste time

and not focus on the new knowledge that is given. But with me reading Monte Calvert book I

learned a few things as I was typing this paper. The Mechanical Engineering profession have

developed to something great that the word can be satisfied with.

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