Exercise 2.h

1. The rhetorical situation of the author is the election season, specifically the primary elections, in the spring of 2008. The purpose of his article is to explore the rhetoric used in an article written in the Collegiate Times. He used his article to show the use of pathos and logos in the article cited from the newspaper. His audience is primarily college students that read the newspaper. He explains how reporters use their position to attempt to persuade his/her readers.

2. One of the expectations of the genre is to have bias in the reporting. In my past experiences I have written in the analytical genre in various school assignments such as book critiques. I have also read multiple movie critiques and sports news reports.

3. The writer can achieve the same purpose for the same audience by submitting an editorial to the newspaper. The advantage to the editorial is that it will reach a wider audience to convey his message. Also, his article is about a newspaper article so the context is the same.

4. He could post his analysis in a different newspaper to reach a different audience. His purpose is still the same except with a different audience. This audience is limited to those who read that newspaper so it is very specific.

5. A teacher might use this genre convention in analyzing a book he/she is using for the class. He/she could break the book into parts in order to make it easier for students to understand. A social worker uses the same convention to break a child’s file into parts in order to work with different areas of the child’s life. A scientist also uses the convention to break a lab into parts in order to follow each direction precisely.