I did my rhetorical analysis on
Group Therapies for the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa by Lindsay T. Murn. The author's purpose for this article was to introduce the history of research for eating disorders and to suggest possible therapeutic cures for it. An example of one is group therapy. The author says that it can help decrease isolation and will maintain individuality. I think that the author intended to write this for people that know of someone with bulimia and they need to know more about symptoms and how it can be cured. The overall main point of this article was to inform the reader about eating disorders, mainly bulimia, and how group therapy can be helpful to those who suffer from eating disorders. The author shows that through therapy, these disorders can be cured by either group therapy or self-help. The author shows a percentage of both males and females that suffer from an eating disorder. Most of the time females suffer from it, but there are some men that have the same problem. This type of evidence is persuasive to the reader because it is an actual percentage of people with this disorder. An example of a non persuasive evidence would be if the author made up an example of someone with an eating disorder because it wouldn't be accurate. The author first introduces the behaviors and symptoms of those with eating disorders and then goes on about the percentages of people suffering from disorders. She has a section after the introduction about group therapy and one about self-help and how they can contribute to curing disorders. The arrangement of the paragraphs are effective because she first describes the issue and then talks about the possible cures for it. The author uses terms like amenorrhea and she defines it for the reader. It means loss of menstrual cycle. The author's purpose for using these terms is to define the symptoms for the reader more. I think that the author wrote this passage as a research because most of what the author states is cited. She can also be an expert in psychology that is doing further research on this issue, because the main purpose of this is to show the reader the history of eating disorders and possible cures for it. By reading this, Lindsay M. Murn has shown me that not only women suffer from this, men do as well. I've never met or even heard of a man that has an eating disorder. She has also shown the possible cures like group therapy, self-help, and psychoeducational, which all seem helpful. However, in my opinion i think that group therapy would be the most effective because the patients can see that there are others that have the same problem and it can help them overcome their disorder together as a group.
