Evaluation of Rhetorical Sources
Author/Speaker- Jason Samenow is a writer for the washingtonpost in Washington D.C. His specialty is righting about weather. He writes articles about weather men being arrested all the way to climate change.
Audience- The audience of this Article is aimed towards people interested in climate change and the research of weather and space. It is shown by the required knowledge expected by the author. This article shows in depth reactions on the bill and the uprising that it may result in.
Context- This article informs me on its date of publication and also informs me on the event that caused the controversy. The content lacks backgrounds from the primary and secondary audiences but shows the social movements related to the topic by expressing peoples reactions to the budget cuts.
Author- Dennis Overbye. Dennis is an experienced writer in anything that consists with space and science. He has written two books in his lifetime and joined the New York Times in 1998. He lives in Morningside Heights with his wife and daughter.
Audience- His audience is aimed towards astronomers and people interested in NASA's missions. His audience is filled with people that have previous knowledge on NASA's projects and budget cuts. His audience is shown by his assumption of previous knowledge. He doesn't go into detail about certain people and certain projects, knowing that his audience may already be updated on that information.
Context- The date of this source is March 1 2006. It was delivered through the internet. The author is a well educated man that is extremely interested in astronomy, showing his opinions on the budget cuts and how they are conflicting with NASA projects. The backgrounds of the primary and secondary audiences come from all around. They people who have any interest in what NASA is undergoing and what is stopping them.
Author- Joel Achenbach has a very wide variety of articles but tends to always write news about pluto and NASA missions. He is reporter for the Washington post.
Audience- His audience are people who are uniformed about NASA's new space mission and the skeptics about it. His audience are people who have interest in what are next step in space is going to be and why it is going to happen. I can tell this message is intended for them because it is posted in a very popular paper in which many Americans read. The author goes into detail about the mission and the issues it is already causing.
Context- this article was published on August 17th 2013 and was delivered online. The author uses the title and key sections to explain his view on this mission. For example saying "improbable" "NASA is looking"" NASA has been". All these highlighted phrases show the authors tone to the subject. He is showing that this situation and mission if far from happening. The authors brings in peoples thoughts about exploring our universe and how the public views this mission. He also links the article to many other texts.
Great work here Aaron!
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