Annalise Mabe's Article When Being Sexually Abused A Crime?

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being sexually abused a crime? After being sexually assaulted, a victim herself, Annalise Mabe, on her article “You should have been more careful: when doctors shame rape survivors”, expressed her anger and concerns towards how doctors approach patients that have been sexually assaulted. Her explanation and tone make her seem trustworthy and credible. The author starts by pointing out how doctors talk to their patients. “I see this all the time”, the author is trying to make readers think that doctors are careless about their patients because sexual assaults are just something that happens every day. The author creates a sense of anger between readers when she uses the phrase “all the time” and it makes readers doubt if doctors are people …show more content…

Put your clothes on and come pay”. The author’s purpose is to put doctors on the line, and expose them as bad heartless people that all they care about is money. Readers’ values are also affected because it is not ethical for someone that is supposed to help you to say “put your clothes on and come pay”. Not only does the author uses specific language to make a point, there is also a good use of ethos because the author only refers to herself in first person when expressing herself on how she feels. It makes her sound more intelligent because she is not ashamed to say what she feels and is willing to share her feeling with an audience that does not even know …show more content…

For instance, when the author says “Surviving sexual assault is difficult enough when…, the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States”. This is a great example of logos, she uses this data on purpose because readers would understand that facts are valuable and cannot be debatable. The data must be true which makes the readers be in an agreement with the author because there is actually valid information that supports all her claims. The author also uses emphasizes on words like “depression”, “hopeless”, and “PTSD”, as a proof that what she is talking which makes her statement more credible because there evidence that sexual assaults are more than just raping a person, it goes further than that, she also uses quotation marks to specifically make sure the evidence is more obvious for the readers to see how concerned she

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