Compare And Contrast Text 1 And Two Persuasive Techniques

Compare The Persuasive Techniques In Texts 1 And 2
The language choice used by the two authors were very strong and persuasive. They were both anti vandalism and had strong view which they expressed very powerfully to the reader. The two texts could be mistake for a persuasive essay in some ways offering very little rebuttal or a side for the opposition. Both the texts although different show the hardship of the victims of vandalism and the use of emotions through quotes.

In text 1 it made lots of statements about the change of the mindset and used lots of figures to support their statements. This technique was used multiple times showing the rising statistics of the vandalism taking place such as “graffiti offences recorded by police have

grown from 5151 in 2006 to 5765 in 2010”. When reading about the problem we are naturally drawn to statements backed up by facts you don’t need a high level of education to understand that if the figures are rising there’s a problem.

While in text 1 there were more facts and figures in text 2 the language used was more than emotive border line Pathos. This means the author wrote it almost as rally cry no using any sence or figures “These hooligans are like dogs running around marking ….. as much territory as possible”. This kind of language is meant to make people mad at the idea of vandalism and to get those who are already angry about it more motivated to do action. The facts and figures shown in