Dana Gioia builds an argument to persuade his audience that the decline of reading in America will have negative effect on society in many ways.
The first way is that the author said that schools have inadequately taught reading comprehension. He used a description of an article called "Reading at Risk:A Survey of literary reading in America." In order to see the declining trend of reading. He also used logos about all of the reading trend in America. People used pathos to complain about reading comprehension and it being inadequately taught and the quote which has the word emotional beauty.There are also anecdotes or stories about past reading issues. This is a very good first part. It also has a lot of quotes.
The second way is the author
