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In interrogation, the narrator frames communication and persuasion through Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, treating discourse roles like “identity kits.” The young suspect Janet denies killing Authority, explaining her difficulty using academic concepts of authored texts, claims, and inferences. The chapter pivots from suspicion to a re-start of investigation based on the suspect’s understanding.","The Death of Authority  \nGABRIELA TAMAYO  \nProduced in Melissa Ringfield’s Spring 2015 ENC 1101  \nThe Prologue  \nIt was dark that evening. I’ve never encountered a darker night in my life until this one rolled in. I can still recall where I was that night when I got the call. I was eating dinner with my wife and our 13-month old baby. Of course little Jeremy had to be 13 months old. I just hated superstitions.  \nWhen I finished my call I gathered my things to leave and crossed in front of my wife, who was still seated at the dinner table with a spoon full of small peas to Jeremy’s mouth. She threw mea look that told me how upset she was at the call at this hour. But really, it didn’t bother me; I worked hard at solving puzzles and her face only amused me.  \nI gave her a quick peck and hurried out the door before I could be stopped by anything else. From the distress I heard on the line, I knew it had to be serious. There were other cases I had to solve in the past that seemed to throw me off balance, but this one would be the mother-load. This earthquake would toss me over the cliff to be devoured by man-eating sharks.  \nWhen I arrived at the scene of the crime, there were lights and people flashing and bustling about. After quickly displaying my badge at the police officers on guard around the yellow tape, I stepped into the tent that surrounded the crime. Once inside, inspecting the details, I couldn’t help the title that immediately popped into my head of what this chapter in my investigative career could be called if I wrote an autobiography: The Death Of Authority.  \nThe Case of Authority’s Death  \nThe victim, Authority, lived to be as old as the Greeks that first invented him and was still as important as ever. Basing my inferences on his profile, he seemed to be what gave newcomers and masters alike something called Ethos. Ethos was one of three appeals, the other two being his brother and sister, Logos and Pathos. These three appeals combined gave a writer authority with the help of Ethos portraying credibility, expertise, or competence in their discourse community; Pathos stimulating the feelings of the audience to evoke a change in their attitudes and actions; and Logos mobilizing the powers of reasoning.1 Never was there a time that those three were separated, unless it was a matter of life and death.  \nA Discourse, in this sense, is a sort of ‘identity kit’ that comes with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write in a specific community so as to take on a role that others will recognize.2 As a detective, I needed to delve deeper into the “identity kits” and appeals of my suspects, mastering in the recognition of each person’s role in their discourse. I cut right to the chase.  \nIt wasn’t many hours after, near the crack of dawn, that a young woman was brought in to the station. She seemed timid and slightly fearful of the situation she found herself in, but she  \n1 Covino and Jolliffe 388  \n2 Gee para. 6  \nseemed to hold information that might be vital to this investigation, so I jumped on the opportunity to interview her first.  \nWalking into the interrogation room they held her in, I decided to play good cop to see where it would get me. While we were carefully sitting down on the hard wooden chair, I asked her the basics: name, age, residence, what she knew about the crime.  \nIt turns out her name was Janet. I knew the name rang a bell, but I couldn’t decide where I knew her. I kept this discovery and mystery out of my facial expressions and proceeded with the interrogation.  \n“So, Miss Janet,” I said as I opened up the file folder I had in front of me, taking a peek at the list of questions I compiled in a hurry before walking in.“What were you doing near the scene of the crime? 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