Assignment
For this assignment, find a recent mainstream science article published within the past 6 months. Read the article, and begin doing a rhetorical and genre analysis of the piece. First identify the Rhetorical Situation of the article and the use of the classical appeals (including Kairos); be specific and use quotes to support your claims. Then consider the genre of the piece, consider what specific conventions you see the author using, and how you see those choices and conventions aligning with a particular genre of science writing. How would you classify this article generically?
Some source to consider would be: The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, Orion, etc.