To be honest I put no full thought into picking an article. I just took the luck of the draw and opened the book to a random page. Luckily the topic interested me so I stuck with it! I am choosing to analyze article 3-D for the Rhetorical Analysis. The author, Mark H. Willes, focuses on immigration. What peeked my interest was that his philosophy towards immigration is completely unique when compared to others out there. His focus is to fix this debate over immigration by fixing our own personal out look on the subject. His purpose in writing this article is to show that "they" are not the problem but that "we" are. The author uses many facts that allude to the idea that he is writing for the Mormons in Utah about immigration. I found that I fall under his intended audience, this being said Willes was very convincing and by the end of the article I agreed with his ideas.
One of the things that caught my eye was that the article begins with a very well thought out and engaging introduction, filled with parallel sentences. The author then follows with bullet points. This seemed to me almost blasphemy that an author should use bullet points in their article. I hope that through the Rhetorical Analysis paper I will be able to deem exactly why he did use bullet points and how they helped his cause.
Your title is awesome! When I get on and decide which blog posts I want to read I normally will read ones with titles that catch my attention. Like you said in your post, you liked the article because it had an engaging introduction. I think your title was great because it engaged me because I was able to relate to it. Awesome! Good luck with your analysis!
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that this article caught your attention. It seems to me like here at BYU it is so easy to just pretend like immigration problem doesn't exist (I say problem, because it's either a problem that so many people are immigrating to our country illegally, OR it's a problem that we're not more receptive to them. Either way, this is a problem). Having served my mission here in Utah, I can attest to the fact that immigration really is an important issue that often gets ignored by the general public. Enjoy writing!
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