1. Snapple Deal To Outsource May Add Jobs In America
The author of this article is Heather Timmons. Heather is a long time writer for the New York Times. She has written over 1,500 articles for the paper. It is clear that she is in support of the return of jobs to America. She wrote how Snapple hired an Indian company that uses American employees, thus bringing back jobs. The author has a positive and supportive tone for the return of the jobs.
The audience for this piece would be Americans who are either looking for new jobs after losing them or are angry about big corporations that outsource jobs to foreign nations. This piece serves a good start for the activists in their journey to bringing back jobs to America.
The author of this piece is Samantha Lachman. By even reading the title of the article it is clear to tell that she is not in support of David Perdue has done. The piece, in her own style, has a negative and angry mood throughout. IT is clear that she is opposed to the outsourcing of jobs that the GOP clearly supports.
The audience of this piece would be the general American public. The goal of the piece is to show how big corporations with GOP ties are hurting american labor more than helping it. It's important to notice the emphasis on the GOP's ties to out sourcing throughout the piece, clearly trying to sway political an opinion
3. Obama Team Accuses GOP of Outsourcing to Manila, Pays Firm that Outsources to Manila
The author of this piece is Daniel Halper. He is a long time writer for The Weekly Standard. In his piece he is informing the general public of the high possibility that the GOP supports outsourcing jobs and taking away American jobs. This accusation came from President Obama himself. Thus this piece i meant for clear informative purposes and possible political swaying to the left.
The audience of this piece is, yet again, the general american public. It's clear purpose is to show the public what the GOP leaders truly feel when it comes to keeping/bringing back American jobs. The piece is meant to be informative and sway the american publics opinion away from the GOP.
Following their nominee's example, the RNC's calls attacking @BarackObama have apparently been outsourced to Manila: http://bit.ly/IYDuhG .
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By looking at Hallye and Bri's "Evaluation of Rhetorical Situations" I was able to see the points of where both my formatting and context was lacking yet unique. Whereas most of them used a chart or seperation of sections, I personally combined all of the information into a single paragraph for each to keep it short and sweet. My articles, as well, I kept about a single interesting topic that I felt was able to show up in different controversies but with the same issues as the others.
All of these sources and analyses seem very well thought out. I personally thought either the second or third source was most dynamic, since they are clearly opinionated. I felt like the first piece was mostly informative, so there might not be enough content for an extended analysis. Also, I would have been interested to read about some more context for all of the texts, as I am a little unfamiliar with this topic. Overall, I think you did a great job!
ReplyDeleteI am personally very interested in your last article however I think the second one fits the project best. It is about a very specific and surprising rhetorical act so I think there would be a lot of material to work with. I was probably least interested in the first article as I think it is more of a news article which I am not sure is ideal for this project. But that's just my two cents. All of your analyses are pretty good and all of the material is interesting, if not ideal. Good luck!
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