Paolo Dinglasan
Period 1
01/26/11
REHUGO- Essay



A. Article- "In search of a good family" Author- Jane Howard

B. Jane Howard stresses the concept of every human being belonging to a family or a clan in which that person can live successfully and be able to survive with the help of that family. By obtaining a family there is an unlimited amount of opportunities seeking that individual just from having those members surrounding their every day lives.

C. Evidence
Howard provides evidence by using establishing her ethos and pathos with examples. She become a credible source is paragraph 5 when she reveals her own experiences with family. She speaks of an event in which she learns how well a family can function during a special moment with certain gestures or acts of love. Howard establishes pathos in paragraph 7 when she brings in an example of the two Helens. She tries to have her audience and readers connect to this example and reveals its significance. "If you're voluntarily childless and alone, it gets harder and harder with the passage of time. It's stressful. That's why you need support systems." By these "support systems" she tries to relate them back to the need for families, which supports her original thesis that everyone needs a family.

D. Rhetorical Strategies
A few rhetorical strategies are played throughout Howard's piece. She uses repetition with the words "Good families" starting on paragraph 11 continuing on throughout the end on the article. The reason being behind this repetition is to remind the readers about the different reasons why you need a good family. Another rhetorical device used is exemplification. Throughout the article Howard provides specific cases in which families have proven to be a needed aspect of ones life. She uses an African tribe, also known as the Bangwas and turns their way of life as a clan into a much larger concept which she relates back to the clan also being a family.

E. Sources
Shea, Renee Hausemann.,Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Afuses. "In Search of a Good Family" The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.