Justification of Choices of Polemic Arguments Essay -- Homosexuality

Supporting Legal Gay Marriage There are two texts being considered for inclusion in the ‘should gay marriage be legal’ arguments section. Both texts support the argument for gay marriage to be legal with specific attention towards children and parenting in gay couples. The texts analysed are ‘Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting’ by Sharon Jayson for USA Today and Children of Same-Sex Couples Do as Well as Other Children by Linda Little for Medscape News. The article published in Medscape news hold more grounds and would be a more valuable asset for inclusion in the web page then that of the article in USA today. The Medscape article incorporates logical arguments with data and statistics from reliable scientific sources making the article over all a more valuable and informative source. The current article (Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter? By R. Farr, S. Forssell and C. Patterson) used as a supporting so urce for argument 6 in support of gay marriage is not user friendly for site patrons; the Medscape article would provide just as credible a source for the argument whilst maintaining a user-friendly resource for further investigation of the topic. An analysis into the evaluated texts was conducted in relation to their over all linguistic merit and communicatory strengths in relation to there inclusion in the site. Both articles that were analysed used the principles of argument in communicating and persuading an audience. As the Medscape article is published in a scientific news journal there was very little appeal to pathos and an over whelming use of logos in communicating the message. USA Today utilised mainly ethos in appealing to thei... ...lable: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-11-05-gayparents05_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomHealth. Last accessed 31/3/2012. Linda Little. (2005). Children of Same-Sex Couples Do as Well as Other Children. Available: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514477. Last accessed 31/3/2012. Rachel H. Farr, Forssell George, Charlotte J. Patterson. (2010). Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?. Psychology Press. 14 (3), p164 - p178. NA (2012). Using the Toulmin Model. Brisbane: University Queensland, Communications faculty . p1-p6. Daniel Kies. (2001). Ethical Appeal: Ethos, Rational Appeal: Logos , Emotional Appeal: Pathos . Available: ttp://acct.tamu.edu/loudder/private/BLC%20Readings/Ethos,%20Logos,%20and%20Pathos.htm. Last accessed 31/3/2012. Justification of Choices of Polemic Arguments Essay -- Homosexuality Supporting Legal Gay Marriage There are two texts being considered for inclusion in the ‘should gay marriage be legal’ arguments section. Both texts support the argument for gay marriage to be legal with specific attention towards children and parenting in gay couples. The texts analysed are ‘Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting’ by Sharon Jayson for USA Today and Children of Same-Sex Couples Do as Well as Other Children by Linda Little for Medscape News. The article published in Medscape news hold more grounds and would be a more valuable asset for inclusion in the web page then that of the article in USA today. The Medscape article incorporates logical arguments with data and statistics from reliable scientific sources making the article over all a more valuable and informative source. The current article (Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter? By R. Farr, S. Forssell and C. Patterson) used as a supporting so urce for argument 6 in support of gay marriage is not user friendly for site patrons; the Medscape article would provide just as credible a source for the argument whilst maintaining a user-friendly resource for further investigation of the topic. An analysis into the evaluated texts was conducted in relation to their over all linguistic merit and communicatory strengths in relation to there inclusion in the site. Both articles that were analysed used the principles of argument in communicating and persuading an audience. As the Medscape article is published in a scientific news journal there was very little appeal to pathos and an over whelming use of logos in communicating the message. USA Today utilised mainly ethos in appealing to thei... ...lable: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-11-05-gayparents05_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomHealth. Last accessed 31/3/2012. Linda Little. (2005). Children of Same-Sex Couples Do as Well as Other Children. Available: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514477. Last accessed 31/3/2012. Rachel H. Farr, Forssell George, Charlotte J. Patterson. (2010). Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?. Psychology Press. 14 (3), p164 - p178. NA (2012). Using the Toulmin Model. Brisbane: University Queensland, Communications faculty . p1-p6. Daniel Kies. (2001). Ethical Appeal: Ethos, Rational Appeal: Logos , Emotional Appeal: Pathos . Available: ttp://acct.tamu.edu/loudder/private/BLC%20Readings/Ethos,%20Logos,%20and%20Pathos.htm. Last accessed 31/3/2012.