Keymon Oliver
Mrs. Winfield
Eng. 131.044
15 November 2015
Act your Age
Does certain reading genres have an age requirement? Do you like to be told that you are
too old to be reading the genre of books you read? In 2014 an article in the slate book review
called “Against YA” by Ruth Graham was published. In the article she stated that “adults reading
young adult books should be embarrassed.” She was trying to persuade adults that reading young
adult books is basically childish. She thinks that young adult books are written for teenagers not
adults. She used ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade her audience to agree with her opinion.
In “Against YA” Ruth Graham used ethos as a tool to pass her opinion on to the audience.
The appeals of the ethos that she used was a well written article, she used good examples
throughout the article, visual appeal and research in the article. The way she uses the smooth
well written appeal is how her paragraph flow and transit between each other all through the
entire article. She also perfects the good examples appeals. She gives examples of young adult
books that are popular with adults that read the genre. The example she uses are “The Fault in
Our Stars” and “Eleanor & Park.” Ruth Graham also uses the research appeal in her article. The
way she used the ethos visual appeal was by bolding and italicizing the font for some of the titles
of the books she mentioned in the article. Some examples of her doing that is “The Perks of
