Use of Rhetoric in Nickel and Dime by Barbara Ehrenreich forced to enter the workforce after the ongoing welfare reform in 1998. Ehrenreich wanted to capture her experience by recounting her method of "discovering journalism" in a sort of chronological presentation of the events that took place during his effort. His methodologies and actions were somewhat orthodox in practice. This was not a social experiment to recreate a social scenario of poverty, but rather to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working in low-wage jobs like 4 million women were about to live it. Although Ehrenreich makes good use of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos), she is very effective in describing pathos, trying to make us understand why we should care about a social situation like this through credibility , emotion and logic. For most people conducting experiments, Ehrenreich must first establish the credibility of his knowledge on this topic. She does this in her introduction in several ways. Ehrenreich says she has a doctorate in biology but has a penchant for writing. She begins by being exposed to low-wage jobs using her sister and her husband as a companion for over a decade. His sister, who worked for the telephone company as a sales representative, factory worker and receptionist, described her experiences as "the despair of being a wage slave." Her husband worked for $4.50 an hour in a warehouse before he was lucky enough to land a well-paying job with the Teamsters union workers. Ehrenreich's use of statistical information also proves to her audience that she has in fact done her research on this topic. subject. She admits that poverty is a social subject that she talks about frequently. She researched that in 1998, the National Coalition for the Homeless reported that nationally, on average, it would cost about $8.89 to afford a one-bedroom apartment. room and that the odds of welfare recipients landing a job paying such a "living wage" were about 97 to 1. Ehrenreich experienced this statistic first-hand when she set out to looking for a job in Key West, Florida, when she applied for 20 different jobs, ranging from waiting tables to housekeeping, and of those applications, none received a response..

Essay / Use of Rhetoric in Nickel and Dime by Barbara Ehrenreich forced to enter the workforce after the ongoing welfare reform in 1998. Ehrenreich wanted to capture her experience by recounting her method of "discovering journalism" in a sort of chronological presentation of the events that took place during his effort. His methodologies and actions were somewhat orthodox in practice. This was not a social experiment to recreate a social scenario of poverty, but rather to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working in low-wage jobs like 4 million women were about to live it. Although Ehrenreich makes good use of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos), she is very effective in describing pathos, trying to make us understand why we should care about a social situation like this through credibility , emotion and logic. For most people conducting experiments, Ehrenreich must first establish the credibility of his knowledge on this topic. She does this in her introduction in several ways. Ehrenreich says she has a doctorate in biology but has a penchant for writing. She begins by being exposed to low-wage jobs using her sister and her husband as a companion for over a decade. His sister, who worked for the telephone company as a sales representative, factory worker and receptionist, described her experiences as "the despair of being a wage slave." Her husband worked for $4.50 an hour in a warehouse before he was lucky enough to land a well-paying job with the Teamsters union workers. Ehrenreich's use of statistical information also proves to her audience that she has in fact done her research on this topic. subject. She admits that poverty is a social subject that she talks about frequently. She researched that in 1998, the National Coalition for the Homeless reported that nationally, on average, it would cost about $8.89 to afford a one-bedroom apartment. room and that the odds of welfare recipients landing a job paying such a "living wage" were about 97 to 1. Ehrenreich experienced this statistic first-hand when she set out to looking for a job in Key West, Florida, when she applied for 20 different jobs, ranging from waiting tables to housekeeping, and of those applications, none received a response..

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