Rhetorical Analysis - Source for paper A

The source I am choosing for Paper A is the BYU Honor Code.  The argument is WATCO obeying the honor code on the atmosphere at BYU.  Obeying the honor code will allow for a better atmosphere at BYU because obeying the honor code helps students be honest and morally clean.  Thus, whatever helps students be honest and morally clean allows for a better atmosphere at BYU. The audience is high school and college students deciding whether or not to come to BYU.  These students aren’t set on going to BYU, and they may not have the highest standards.  The goal of BYU and the honor code is to recruit only students who will help there to be a better atmosphere there.  They make the argument mostly through ethos.  They establish a lot of credibility by quoting both ancient and modern-day scripture to show why it’s important to be clean and honest.  They base the honor code on the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is important to most of the people that apply to BYU.  A problem with their reasons was that although it was accurate, if someone is applying to BYU who isn’t religious, the reasons and credibility will mean nothing to them.  So the reasons are focused completely towards members of the church, and not at all towards others who don’t understand the church’s standpoint.  I think that it is effective because most people that I know that haven’t come to BYU say they’d rather not because they don’t want to live the honor code.  Most of those that come to BYU choose to live the honor code also, so it is effective to me.