Argumentation: Personal experiences

Here, we will analyse how the author of Text 3 uses her personal experience in her argumentation. First, we will outline the text and then we will help you with your task.

Outline: I would help a relative on the final journey

Text 3 is called “I would help a relative on the final journey” and it was written by Vicki Woods. The article was published on the website of The Telegraph in 2012.

The author, Vicki Woods, presents her opinion regarding the issue of assisted suicide.

Initially, she depicts a conversation between her and a friend, who most likely wanted Woods to help her when it came to assisted suicide. Woods argues that she would never help her friend such 

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Pathos and personal experience

Vicki Woods' primary mode of appeal is that of pathos. In the entire text she appeals to the readers' emotions one way or other. She uses colloquial language, humour and drags on her personal experiences.

In fact, the article opens with her own personal experience in that she retells a conversation she has had with a friend who brought up the subject. The conversation is what subsequently has

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