Question and David Ginsberg
Document Research Assignment
Qian Lei
Comm171-334
Sonia Senior-Martin
The reason of choose “Smoking is good for my business” (1977 David Ginsburg p.33) and “You Are a Contract Painkiller” (1997 Maureen Littlejohn p.111). I choice two essays, because those two essays are concerning about health problems. They are very similar, but those essays have different theme ,I will talk about those essays about structure, style, subject, theme, ideas and so on. Now I will discuss about those essays, as following:
Structure
Each of the following two essays in this unit is based on careful and organized research. “Smoking is good for my business” (1977) is a David Ginsberg to try to portray and express similar feelings and concern through his writing Smoking is good for my business. With the use of rhetorical questions, anecdotes, parallel structure and comparison David Ginsberg effectively gets his thoughts to his readers. At first, the author use third person to describe to start a theme and use some examples to strong the author’s opinions. David Ginsberg (1997) often uses rhetorical devices in his writing which appeals to the heart of the reader. For example he says “Could I justify this to her 12 year old daughter on the basis that her mother was dying for the economic good of society, for a tennis tournament, for a concert?” Such a question does not require an answer. It gives a feeling of empathy to the reader, making the writers argument more convincing. All the rhetorical questions asked by Ginsberg are directly related to the thesis statement emphasizing the purpose of his writing helping him portray how he feels regarding the tobacco
Qian Lei
Comm171-334
Sonia Senior-Martin
The reason of choose “Smoking is good for my business” (1977 David Ginsburg p.33) and “You Are a Contract Painkiller” (1997 Maureen Littlejohn p.111). I choice two essays, because those two essays are concerning about health problems. They are very similar, but those essays have different theme ,I will talk about those essays about structure, style, subject, theme, ideas and so on. Now I will discuss about those essays, as following:
Structure
Each of the following two essays in this unit is based on careful and organized research. “Smoking is good for my business” (1977) is a David Ginsberg to try to portray and express similar feelings and concern through his writing Smoking is good for my business. With the use of rhetorical questions, anecdotes, parallel structure and comparison David Ginsberg effectively gets his thoughts to his readers. At first, the author use third person to describe to start a theme and use some examples to strong the author’s opinions. David Ginsberg (1997) often uses rhetorical devices in his writing which appeals to the heart of the reader. For example he says “Could I justify this to her 12 year old daughter on the basis that her mother was dying for the economic good of society, for a tennis tournament, for a concert?” Such a question does not require an answer. It gives a feeling of empathy to the reader, making the writers argument more convincing. All the rhetorical questions asked by Ginsberg are directly related to the thesis statement emphasizing the purpose of his writing helping him portray how he feels regarding the tobacco