Rhetorical Analysis of CDC ADHD Web Pages The CDC website is a government-sponsored website that provides the public with details about various diseases and disorders. Specifically, it has a section on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that details everything from symptoms and diagnostics to managing ADHD in the educational setting. This section of the website is intended to provide a sufficient amount of information to the general public looking into ADHD for the first time. The information is nowhere near a comprehensive analysis of ADHD, but it informs the reader sufficiently. It also directs the reader to various other websites if they need further information. Web pages contain many of the elements of pathos, logos and ethics, which will be analyzed in the following paragraphs. The first thing I will address are the elements of pathos on the CDC's website on ADHD. Pathos is the appeal to the emotional side of the reader. The website does this in many ways. One way it appeals to readers' pathos is through the images presented on the website. One of these images is found on the ADHD treatment page. It depicts smiling parents with a child holding a piece of paper labeled "A+." With many children suffering from ADHD, problems in school are a major factor. This image offers hope to parents, caregivers, and teachers of a child with ADHD that educational success is indeed possible. However, another image offers something completely different. On the website's facts page, there is a picture of a child goofing around in class, clearly distracting other children and not getting the work done. This image shows what untreated ADHD can look like in the educational setting. Halfway through the paper... the reader realizes whether he is making these connections or not. ADHD is an all-consuming disease that dominates the lives of parents and children. Authoritative information is crucial to the diagnosis and treatment of this condition. There is no better example of the need for careful and hopeful presentation of facts and the underlying pathos, logos and ethos to convince browsers that they have come across a site containing invaluable and encouraging information in a safe and diagnostic environment. Pathos uses images of both frustration and success to draw the browser into the logos element, factual information that proposes solutions, all tightly tied into an information arc through the credibility of the site's author. The raw emotions of the search for family are captured through the pathos, logos and ethos of the author, leading to those transformative responses and hope.