Peter Fitzsimons's Opinions

Peter Fitzsimons is a former Wallaby and a well-respected author and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. His ties to contact sports makes his position on the issue of concussions much more prominent to the public eye. Peters comments protrude a sense of authenticity that invokes a debate into the seriousness of the situation. The intended audience includes the players themselves, spectators as well the friends and families of the athletes. With that in mind Peter is able to successfully voice his opinions through the strategic use of Pathos filtered throughout the text. This includes the intentional phrasing at the beginning of the sentence where the inclusive pronoun ‘we’ (Fitzsimons, 2017) creates a sense of commonality between speaker