Excercise 2.h

1.In the article done by Bryan West he writes in response to a newspaper article written about the Clinton family and there pursuit to take the White House again. This is the rhetorical situation that it is being written on, as a response essay to the editorial article written in the Collegiate Times. Bryan West, the author, was very clear showing the purpose of his article, which was to examine and pick apart how the author uses certain things as a means of persuasion for the minds of readers. His audience is to other students and readers of the Collegiate Times, and I know this because he is showing the readers all the tricks of persuasion that the writer of the Collegiate Times article has used.
2.The genre conventions used in this article conists of an informative essay, a persuasive essay used to show people a truth, and is also an analysis of the author of the Collegiate Times article. I have had to write several persuasive essays in my past, generally involving an issue or law, whereas in this it involved a persuasion tool used in writing. I have also read some essays written by Mark Twain who was criticizing other authors of the 19th Century and making fun of them through his verse. Overall I feel I am most familiar with the persuasive essay as it seems most things written these days use persuasion as he did in his article. Whereas you do not seem to see as many author analysis's these days, or at least I have yet to read many.
3. If the author wanted to acheive his same purpose but use a differant genre, I feel it could have been more creative and to the same end to put it in the version of a editorial response in the newspaper, which could have caused controversy because he would be directly responding to the writer himself instead of putting it out to the public to see. Though for both genre's the chosen audience would most likely get the point, but the editorial response would have been more harsh and straightforward of a written lash than the persuasive essay form.
4. I feel another genre the author could have used to show his point of the insane amounts of persuasion used in newspaper writing would be using a pamphlet and using the same examples used in the essay and the same article and author. This way the uninformed public could get a hold of this useful information and would be able to look at these articles in differant ways, and be able to see through the tools and playoffs that these article writers use. The intended audience of this genre would be the citizens that do not already have their ideals set out and have their minds open to being molded by these sorts of articles. In order to get his point out there better though the author would need to dumb down his persuasive ideals because as of now they are at the level of a college student or proffesor and they would need to be lowered to that even a twelve year old could get the picture.
5. I feel that in the corporate world you could use these genres more often especially if you have another large rival such as Pepsi and Coke. They would try and get writers to do works to persuade consumers to either buy more of their product or less or their rival's.