Who Am I?

The author of my article, Margena A. Christian, proved to be extremely difficult to find information on. The first web site I started at was Google. I typed in her name and about seven websites popped up that actually pertained to her. The first web site I clicked on to find information about her ended up just being a web site to look for articles people have written. The second web site I went to required me to join the web site if I wanted to find out any information on my author. It also allows anyone who joins to be able to contact that person through the website. I chose not to join because I really didn’t need to contact my author. The third link I looked at gave me information on the wrong Margena Christian, and by that time I was getting really tired of looking for information about her. So all I was able to find out at that point was that I am from the same place as her, Illinois. And at this point I also only found out the month and year in which she was born. Just as I started to get excited that I might actually find a bio about her, I clicked on a link and it led me completely off base. That website allowed you to do a background check on the person you are searching for, a history of their addresses for the past twenty years, and find out who their family and friends are. Dang! I wasn’t trying to put a hit on her or anything! I just wanted to know a little bit about how she got to where she is today or at least find a reliable website that did that. Ethos appeal relies on the credibility of the author and if the author is not creditable, you cannot trust what they write about, let alone include it in your writing. I didn’t find one creditable website during my whole search. There were plenty of disadvantages to where I chose to look in that all the websites led me astray. So anyway, my only option left was to join that website where I would have to set up my own profile in order to look at anyone else’s and that was not going to happen. The only advantage to that was that I probably would have found information on my author had I done it. And anyway, I’m already on facebook. That’s enough.