Who doesn’t like to count stars at night? Especially a child, when he/she looks at the sky for the first time, his/her heart gets filled with many questions. Every time they learn something new, they come up with even more and more questions. Can you recall how many times you experienced something like this when you were a child? All the questions you wondered if they were true. I can recall my experiences from the past, looking at the night sky, I always wondered if there’s someone living outside far beyond this planet and gazing at the stars just like me. I still wonder if it’s even possible and what gives me hope is I’m not the only one with this question, there are other people in the world who believe there can be life beyond our planet. As Neil Tyson an American astrophysicist once said “to declare that earth must be the only planet in the cosmos with life would be inexcusably egocentric of us”. This demonstrates that our planet can’t possibly be the only planet where life exists. Therefore, this essay will include two articles, one of them is “Looking for life as we know it” by Judith Braffman-Miller and the other one is “The case for alien life” by Sarah Fecht and they both discuss the same question that I have if life might exist in anywhere else in the universe and more importantly how it may be possible to find extraterrestrial life in the future.
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Among the two articles stated above, the article written by Sarah Fecht is more successful, compelling and persuasive because not only the plot of the article changes very smoothly but also the rhetoric in the article is very rich to convince its readers. The way ideas presented in both article are very clear. The rhetoric of “The case for alien life” is more persuasive than “Looking for life as we know it”. Because it provides a clear description, and the author’s use of logos and ethos are much professional than the other article. What makes “The case for alien life” more interesting is, in her article, Fecht takes an investigative standpoint while Miller just randomly throws out a bunch of information in his article without clear descriptions, that’s why sometimes it’s very difficult to follow Miller’s point of view. In Fecht’s article, the introduction is anecdotal as well as historical. Author starts her article with “only one planet been proven to support life: Earth” () and tells us little story how scientists come to believe there might life thrive far beyond our galaxy. At the same time, she provides us with some historical information like “on Feb9 2013, NASA’s Curiosity Rover found something on Mars” also “it found in the ancient clay many of the elements needed for life” (). It is a type of introduction which foreshadows the rest of the essay and that is how from the beginning Fecht successfully grabs her reader’s attention and make them to follow along the whole article. On the other hand, Miller’s introduction is much like informational which only incites his own personal interests. For example- “Many scientists think that we do not have entire universe to ourselves…. Soon” (). Even though both author tries to utilize the appeals of ethos and
Among the two articles stated above, the article written by Sarah Fecht is more successful, compelling and persuasive because not only the plot of the article changes very smoothly but also the rhetoric in the article is very rich to convince its readers. The way ideas presented in both article are very clear. The rhetoric of “The case for alien life” is more persuasive than “Looking for life as we know it”. Because it provides a clear description, and the author’s use of logos and ethos are much professional than the other article. What makes “The case for alien life” more interesting is, in her article, Fecht takes an investigative standpoint while Miller just randomly throws out a bunch of information in his article without clear descriptions, that’s why sometimes it’s very difficult to follow Miller’s point of view. In Fecht’s article, the introduction is anecdotal as well as historical. Author starts her article with “only one planet been proven to support life: Earth” () and tells us little story how scientists come to believe there might life thrive far beyond our galaxy. At the same time, she provides us with some historical information like “on Feb9 2013, NASA’s Curiosity Rover found something on Mars” also “it found in the ancient clay many of the elements needed for life” (). It is a type of introduction which foreshadows the rest of the essay and that is how from the beginning Fecht successfully grabs her reader’s attention and make them to follow along the whole article. On the other hand, Miller’s introduction is much like informational which only incites his own personal interests. For example- “Many scientists think that we do not have entire universe to ourselves…. Soon” (). Even though both author tries to utilize the appeals of ethos and