Analysis of Antibiotics and superbugs

In this paper the author who goes by John Bachman-Paternoster makes the point to stop using antibiotics so much. The reason for this is he shows how that antibiotic are prescribed when they are not needed a lot of the time and that antibiotics can hurt people. They hurt them by destroying their good bacteria and by possibly creating super bugs from the surviving bacteria. In this paper the author demonstrates all of the forms of argument. The strongest parts of the argument that is made is the ethos and the logos. The author makes a strong point using a lot of research and medical facts to make you take his point seriously. The logos used is also very strong and persuades the reader that what he is proposing is common sense and that it is very logical. The weakest part of the arguments. The problems with the argument come with the pathos part. The author uses a personal anecdote and fear to try and persuade the reader to agree with him. This argument relies to much on trying to pry on readers emotions than facts and logic. Though this may work on some people it did not on me and I found it to be very useless in this piece. The author makes a good enough case for himself using all of his medical research and other facts to make a compelling case. The pathos of this paper just seemed unnecessary.