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Michael LaRue

ENC1102

Dr. Guenzel

March 31, 2021

Final Draft

The world’s life of day to day after the pandemic

The article I chose to use in my research, "Coronavirus: Will our day-to-day ever be the same?"

is a key contributor to rhetorical themes of ethos and logos. I had decided to look into the way

this article is able to prove the information based on its sources while having information that

gives a greater insight into questions the readers need answered. I had decided to layout the

analysis in the way the information corresponds to the readers as the article is set up. The article

is set up as a Q&A for the readers that the article seeks to get evidence for. I see the main part of

the article as trying to give reliable information to the readers as the main benefit of having the

source to cite from. The article has the audience and the responsibility to stick to being credible

because of the news publisher and the topic on the pandemic’s symptoms on life. The article is

going to provide only the information that can be taken as truth otherwise it would fail to give

clarity in a globally tragic crisis.

The research project topic I am working on is investigating how the lives of people have been

changed in the aftermath of the Covid-19 world. With my project’s topic I wanted to find

information on the many areas of life that changed and the different decisions that went into

different cases of dealing with making it through the pandemic. I believe this article that I have
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chosen has the resources I need in order to further my research process. The article I have chosen

talks on the specific insights of those affected while working through the pandemic's harsh times.

I see the information answering the things to come from after the pandemic will draw a picture

of what was and what will be for the world as far as we can come to know.

The article I picked for my project , "Coronavirus: Will our day-to-day ever be the same?" is an

article that was written by the BBC. The BBC is a well known news source as having a wide

reach and collection of credible resources to help with their reporting. In regards to the subjects

of the article, the article has responses from people who currently or used to work in the

professional side of the area affected by the pandemic. With the format being to give answers to

the readers own questions as in an interview style to these experts the questions are for those

decisive parts of life that society has made a foundation out of. The article answers how these

different aspects of life were changed and the various different interpretations on how things will

continue later on. This article is able to provide accounts and stories of the people affected by the

virus and those on the business industry side as well for my research project. The article

continues to go back and forth between the different parties of the readers and the experts to

cover the entire discussion for credit.

The audience selected by the article would be any reader of the BBC or people looking to see

changes to their corner of daily life. The BBC had gathered truly and undeniably credible experts

to stand in line with its own historical reliability. The inquiries the reader seek responses to are

on what news of changes are going to occur from the pandemic. The article has experts on the

various socioeconomic industries give evidence on how the pandemic looks to bring changes

they expect to their field since it started. These experts respond to questions by readers of BBC

on the state of their industry by giving a follow up report to hopefully answer it. The article is
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arranged in this way of having questions people might have on the future of what day to day life

might end up as. The people asking the questions have turned to the reliable sources they know

in the time when the world has been surrounded by fear and uncertainty. The article uses

intertextuality with the different experts' claims along with their reliable backgrounds. The article

is acting as the credible host to many different responses and claims from individuals in their

own expertise.

The article appeals to the audience with its ethos, by being that the BBC is a trusted news source

and uses professionals' responses on what they think will come for the readers to expect. The

article also appeals to its audience with the logos, or data with information provided by the

experts' answers on the multiple industries. The article provides a one stop Q&A for what has

happened in the world heard from spokespeople from critical industries in the lives of common

citizens. The article acts to inform most questions of its curious readers, however if it cannot

there are the interviewed experts that have provided an article on their own specific issue. The

audience is better informed so that they can be aware of what changes to get used to when the

pandemic is over.

This article looks to answer many fields for daily life that have been affected in one way or

another by the Coronavirus. The article talks on the time of the going from beginning to a

foreseeable future from the accounts of those working through the duration of the pandemic.

With stories and accounts from people who had to deal with the virus the discussion covers both

sides of those who need to know and those who are trying to adjust to the hand they were given.

The few prevalent topics the article talks on are how coivd-19 has affected travel, transport,

economics, cities, and medical protocols. The people talking on these are also top of the list

named professionals on their topic which they provide discussion on, the article goes to provide
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the background so the audience doesn’t hold this as being possibly not credible. The information

given has shown the conditions of the topic from the experts are experiencing or have had a past

with to draw their interpretations on. With some answers of these prevalent topics being, "Quite

apart from dealing with the bureaucracy and rules, I’m afraid that post-pandemic travel will be to

a very different new world" (Tony Wheeler), "Facing these challenges, cities will find pressure

to do what they have in the past: target budget cuts to the vulnerable, direct resources to luring

the wealthy to stay and prop up the existing system" (Sam King), and "It is not the density of

cities that leads to people being infected, it is unequal access to adequate housing, energy, water,

sanitation, transport, green public spaces, healthcare and education" (Maimunah Mohd Sharif).

These examples are a few topics of discussion for what the picture post covid-19 will look like.

Since this Information correlates with my project it works to offer multiple outlets on the fields

to look into. With multiple examples of expectations for what the aftermath looks like, the article

gives a good look into what good and bad perspectives there are on people’s lives, thanks to the

virus. The experts' points give me further research details to look into and the article gives a lot

of information aside from the capability it gives me into deeper research. The fields of which the

experts expand upon say the struggles during the pandemic could continue to shift the world

while the future remains vague and open to possibility. The main take away for the article is that

the people working to make it past the pandemic are hopeful that the changes will make things

better while stating what to face in the foreseeable future could be rough transitions.

The article was able to cover many bases on the claims and questions it’s readers sought answers

on the pandemic’s aftermath. I believe that readers can look at this article as being a great

example of the rhetorical appeal of ethos, coming from the people who worked or lead in their

sections of industry. The article also made sure to keep the tone of answering the questions of the
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audience throughout the entire article by sticking to the Q&A discussion format. The article had

multiple discussions stemming from the same sector of industry from the inquiries of the readers

and from the claims of possible futures they expect. The article had met the readers in their

search for the news with the truth and full phrasing by experts that gave the answers to how their

lives are expected to adjust to the new world. The article has shown from the repetition of who it

answers to and wide scale support to my analysis to completely be an absolute keystone article to

pull my research’s backing up on.

Work Cited

Coronavirus: Will our day-to-day ever be the same?

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201109-coronavirus-how-cities-travel-and-family-life-

will-change