Third source

My next source is a group of articles and pamphlets that were for the celebration of Bill Zorn towards the end of his coaching career and after he retired from athletic director.   I selected these because it has quotes from people who work with Bill Zorn and were important to the Eau Claire community at the time.  I feel like it will give me a good aspect of what people thought of Bill at that time.

This primary source will give me evidence of what kind of man Bill Zorn was because it had all of his achievements listed and peoples personal comments about him.  These articles will be biased because they will be promoting Bill but it will also show what good things he has done.  These will help my rhetorical context by helping build my invented ethos. 

From these articles I learned that Bill Zorn was a successful coach and helped build Eau Claire’s athletic programs as the athletic director.  One thing missing is heavy context of how he achieved all of these great achievements.  I want to know how he did all the great things he accomplished.  Putting this source with the other sources I have written about I feel that the picture of Bill Zorn that I am imagine is starting to become complete.

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  1. This is an interesting topic considering how well known Bill Zorn is in the Eau Claire area. When you are talking about rhetorical context I would suggest going into further detail there. You talk a little bit about inventing ethos and possible biases but I would suggest digging even deeper into rhetorical context. Is this source something that they handed out at his commencement or at some sort of ceremony? I like how you brought up a potential bias because the pamphlet is promoting Bill Zorn. That shows that you brought up an “against the grain” point. Also if this source does contribute to answering any part of your research I think you should talk about that, if not then no problem.

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