Authority in reading and writing

     Authority is a key factor in reading and writing. The authority in writing is the voice of the writing explaining the lesson. While reading a text you are following the authority of the text. The authority is the writers voice telling you the information. The reader is like a citizen in a society, he is supposed to take everything the writer/authority tells him as law. The writer must convince the reader to believe him by convincing him that he has the authority on the topic. It is vital in the writing process to make the authority strong by providing examples and evidence to show that you are right. Authority is importent in the reading process, since the reder must find the authority in the reading and try to learn from what it has to say.

     I am able to trust Herbert, King, and Thomas as authorities in their writings. They present themselves as trustworthy by providing evidence to their points. This way I believe their statements. They also are trust worthy since they are talking about ideas that are very common, and I already agree with. They all set up thier argument and proved the examples to back it up. I trusted thier arguments since they made it relevent to me. They were also very trustworthy since the lesson was a way to help myself, people in the middle class. Writers become trustworthy authority's if the reader can relate to what they saying and they provide evidence to prove their arguments correct. 

     I distrusted their authorities when they were telling me exactly what to do. I aggreeded with them them about the problem but they didn't convice me on thier solution. When they told me what to do it felt more like an order, autmatically making me mistrust them. They also didn't back up their solutions to the problem with enough evidence that it has worked in the past.