Argument

Mark Sisson argues that the use of banned substances isn’t a problem because these substances keep the athletes healthy and at the top of their game. This is a topic that is popular in today’s world of competition and professional sports. The claim to allow performance enhancing drugs is difficult to make people agree with you because the media always displays them as bad and they never say the positive benefits of these drugs. Since it is difficult to get people to believe and agree with your claim by pitching a well-constructed argument. Sisson presents a good argument by using strategies of persuasion such as ethos, pathos, and logos developed by Aristotle.
Sisson’s affective use of ethos in his claim of banned substances in sports is shown by his experience as a health and fitness writer for Primal Nutrition, a health supplement company, and by stating he spent time as the Anti-doping commissioner for the International Triathlon Union. Sisson says he helped create the first set of anti-doping rules for triathlon in 1988 shows that he is someone who knows an extensive amount about the topic of drugs in sports. This makes the audience more likely to believe and listen to what is being stated in the claim. In addition Sisson graduated from Williams College with a major in biology and started working for a health supplement company has a health and fitness writer. After he says this Sisson goes on to say “Most of these substances are actually drugs that were developed to enhance health” (Sisson 596). Sisson saying that he graduated with a major in biology and that he work for a health supplement company sets up him to say that the drugs are made to boost someone’s health nicely because people know beforehand that he is very edu...

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...ic is great because Back to The Lake says “Logical reasoning is indispensable for persuading others that your ideas and opinions are valid” (Cooley 520). This supports the point that Sisson displays a good argument by using logical reasoning in his article.
Sisson effectively gets his argument about drugs in sports across by correctly using Aristotle’s ethos, pathos and logos. Sisson gains the audiences trust by telling them about his past history in the field of drugs in sports. Then he tells personal stores and gives examples on how athletes are treated unfair to make the audience feel that the people that are in charge are at fault not the athletes. Sisson has reached his goal about getting the argument out the public effectively and get his audience to question the next breaking news story about athletes supposedly caught taking drugs to enhance performance.