An Essay about an Essay When Doris Goodwin wrote her essay, "From Father, With Love," she was trying to prove a point. She talks about the love of baseball and the times she had with her father at the baseball games when she was a child. At the end of the essay, Goodwin talks about how she took her boys to the baseball games like her father did. This shows that she is trying to …showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…in her essay made it very convincing. Her use of pathos makes the reader feel emotions like sadness and delightfulness. Goodwin's use of allusions and analogies also make the essay convincing because they help you to relate with what Doris Goodwin is saying. Another reason that the essay is convincing is because of the word usage and detail. The word usage and detail helped to create a mental picture and really contributed to the essay.