SWA#7

Title: Rhetorical Analysis of “The Women’s Crusade”

Thesis: Authors Kristof and WuDunn effectively make their argument that providing aid to women in poorer countries will positively impact the world by using a sense of kairos and by giving evidence to support their views, building pathos.

I.               Background

II.             Summary (not totally sure how to outline those)

III.           Kairos is a major aid to the effectiveness of this article’s argument.

a.     Published in 2009

b.     A time when women are gaining more ground…higher paid, better jobs, more education

IV.            Several stories were told within the article to build the pathos, emotional response, from the reader.

a.     Saima

1.     beat, poor, started own business and is now respected

b.     China

1. girl babies are killed, not given education

2. Tiananmen Square killing

c. Abbas Be

1. Sex slave, received education and is now helping support her family

d. Ivory Coast research

1. “When women command greater power, child health and nutrition improves”

e. Tinashe

1. married at 11 in Africa but received small education and is now working on her PhD

V. The authors present a problem but don’t fully give a solution.

VI. Conclusion Point: Kristoff and WuDunn spend majority of the article throwing out examples of stories in Asia and the Middle East. What the fail to do is thoroughly expand how educated women are impacting the world in other places. Even with that, they still make good points to prove their original argument.