Tow #7- The Telegraph Article/ "'Yeti Lives'- An Abominable Snowman is part polar bear and still roams the Himalayas"/ Jasper Copping

Nearly as famous as the grandeur of Mt. Everest is the notorious creature said to live there, the Yeti. People have claimed to see it for decades, and new "evidence" pops up all of the time. However, the most people are skeptics; they won't believe such a monster could exist without legitimate proof. Luckily for them, writer Jasper Copping explains the scientific discovery of English professor Bryan Sykes with actual evidence. According to his recent findings, the Yeti could be a hybrid of a typical brown bear and the polar bear; the tested material comes from mummified “Yeti remains” and “yeti hair” that was found, and was apparently a 100 percent match to the polar bear and brown bear DNA. Copping gives a brief background on the Yeti that provides a juxtaposition of ridiculous Yeti sightings and myths and Sykes’ professional comparison of ancient polar and supposed Yeti DNA. He also appeals to logos through the use of dates, measurements, and other statistics. Copping’s compilation of Yeti evidence serves to reassure believers of the Yeti’s existence as well as to collect information for skeptics. It also takes on the role of entertaining readers because of its placement in the Telegraph Newspaper, in the “Weird News” section. This article is successful in its attempt to influence readers and entertain because it makes readers think. It also employs exemplification of the Yeti’s existence because of other, quoted accounts of Yeti sightings/evidence. Both the author of the article and the professor (who may have found a breakthrough in Yeti genetics) are credible and well-experienced, and therefore, their appeals to ethos though exemplification and the author’s diction make the article more powerful when it comes to achieving its purpose. Whether or not the Yeti really does exist, the article is informational and scholarly, without feeling weighted or fake. 

Copping, Jasper. "Yeti Lives': Abominable Snowman Is 'part Polar Bear and Still Roams the Himalayas'" The Telegraph. The Telegraph Newspaper, 17 Oct. 2013. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.

N.d. Photograph. Build Your Own Yeti. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.