sydthepluhg59:
The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by providing facts. presenting statistics. restating his claim. using deductive reasoning.
Eiwoh2:
Well, is there a passage to go along with this question? It speaks about an author and there should be something else to go with this.
sydthepluhg59:
Read the following excerpt from E. O. Wilson’s “The Environmental Ethic.” It is also easy to overlook the services that ecosystems provide humanity. They enrich the soil and create the very air we breathe. Without these amenities, the remaining tenure of the human race would be nasty and brief. The life-sustaining matrix is built of green plants with legions of microorganisms and mostly small, obscure animals—in other words, weeds and bugs. Such organisms support the world with efficiency because they are so diverse, allowing them to divide labor and swarm over every square meter of the earth’s surface. They run the world precisely as we would wish it to be run, because humanity evolved within living communities and our bodily functions are finely adjusted to the idiosyncratic environment already created. The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by
Eiwoh2:
Well, reading this passage, almost all can be right, but there is one that stands up from the others. Could you perhaps take a guess on what it is based on this paragraph?
sydthepluhg59:
providing facts?
Eiwoh2:
That is what i'm leaning towards, as well. It dosen't present statistics, nor is it trying to persuade the reader as much. I'm balancing between providing facts and deductive reasoning.
sydthepluhg59:
okay thank you!
Eiwoh2:
Not a problem. Welcome to QuestionCove, and have a good day. ^^
Eiwoh2:
@sydthepluhg59 , if you could, close the question by pressing the button "Close Question".
jasonmitchell:
The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by providing facts. He states why ecosystems are important by saying what they do for us and the world that surrounds us.
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