Unemployment rate falls to 9.7 percent


“I don't think we're close yet to even a stable rate at this point,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “We have yet to see any hiring. Until we get real, positive, substantive job growth, it's hard to conclude this is a self-sustaining economy."

Even if job growth returns to the pace of the boom years in the middle of the last decade, it would take years to create the millions of new jobs needed to bring employment back to pre-recession levels.

“Getting those jobs back is going to be very difficult,” said William Gross, a founder of investment manager PIMCO. He pointed out that a third of the jobs lost were in fields related to the housing boom, including construction workers and real estate agents. "Those jobs aren't coming back.”

I recently read this article on the unemployment rate and was trying to analyze the rhetoric marks in the article itself. With Marks Zandi remark on “I don't think we're close yet to even a stable rate at this point,” is a pathos reasoning. With a personal remark on a emotional decision. "We have yet to see any hiring." would be his logos reasoning, based on what he has seen. Also in his remarks are based on his profession as an economist, is his ethos. Detemining his emotional cedibility and moral characteristics. It backs up his support on the topic based on his knowledge in that field. "Getting those jobs back is going to be very difficult," and "Those Jobs aren't coming back" is a mixture of logos and pathos. It drives the emotion of your decision with your logical reasoning. Letting this author in the article state out his reasonings with his logic, emotion, and morals using the three different rhetoric arts.

Tone of Message

The only recent message that I have received was from a professor, stating that our PowerPoint Presentation had been postponed due to concerns of the project and the lack of time we had to complete it.

“I have been notified of some concern over the due date that I announced for the Unit 3 PowerPoint Presentation (currently set for tomorrow). I agree with the concerns that were presented and wanted to offer a few more days to get your PowerPoint presentation compiled. You may post it in on Sunday, the 31st, rather than having to post it tomorrow.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you!”

I believe the professors tone to be courteous and sincere in his message. It was informative as well as direct. He gave us notice of his concerns and gave us a couple more days to turn in the assignment, which also lowered the stress on my end, by giving us a couple more days to do so. He was also curious as to where we were in the project and if there were any questions we had. It was written at the appropriate level from a professor to a student. I wouldn’t expect anything more out of this message.

Worksheet for Proposal

Worksheet for Proposal

The Art of Rhetoric

As for the rhetoric art that I have come to know from the great Greek philosopher Aristotle, was that ethos was your credibility or moral characteristic, pathos is your emotions persuasion, and logos is your logical reasoning. Each of these phrases providing you with clarity in your claim with supporting evidence; mainly focusing on the particular case of persuasion in your statement. I thought these were all very keen and elegant ways of speaking or writing effectively. If you were to be become an effective writer you had to understand these rhetoric terms thoroughly. I definitely felt Aristotle was on to something here and made good sense in his judgment. These do play very important roles in your logic of persuasion, whether it be speaking or writing in any language.

Start-up for English 402

In the past I have wrote many blogs for previous college classes. We focused more on the technical blog pages and what types of gadgets they can have. But never really focused on the writing part. I'm looking forward to see how this can help critique my writing and see what I am able to gain from this class.