The insight of Climate change

“The Green Apple” by David Biello is a scientific essay that states out the problems of the climate change with data, for example, flash floods flash floods, storms, droughts, and increasing temperature. The writer also pointed out the solutions that the U.S. government has been working on in some major metropolises.

Biello addressed the problems with the data provided in numbers, which can let readers to know how serious it is. For example, “Flash floods deposited more than 7000 kilograms of dirt and debris on tracks that stretch more than 1350 kilometers and carry 1.5 billion passengers annually”. Also, Biello mentioned the modeler’s prediction of the seriousness in the future, such as “NASA climate modeler Cynthia Rosenzweig, which predicts a 5 to 10 percent increase in the mean precipitation around New York City by 2080”, and “The panel predicts a temperature rise of 2 to 4 degrees Celsius from the current average temperature of degree C by 2100”.

In “The Arrangement of Scientific Paper”, Alan C. Gross has introduced Baconian Induction and the idea of deduction. In “The Green Apple”, Biello persuades readers to be aware of the climate changes by using the idea of deduction. Aforementioned, Biello gives a lot of example for the disasters and he used the word “predict” quite frequently to address more serious climate problems in the future. After he remarked the climate change impacts that causes catastrophes, he asked the question to the reader, “What can you do to prepare for that?” to enforce the reader to face the problems of global warming and force them to think deeply.

Short Assignment #2

In “Letter to President Clinton on Iraq,” New American Century (26 Jan 1998), it shows us it is a letter to President Clinton. The writer persuades him about the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power.

In Kinneavy’s article, “The Basic Aims of Discourse”, he defines the aim of discourse is meant “the effect that the discourse is oriented to achieve in the average listener or reader for whom it is intended” (297). The implied audience of “Letter to President Clinton on Iraq” is President Clinton for whom the writer sends the letter to, and the intended audience is anyone who read this newspaper.

From what I saw in “letter to President Clinton on Iraq,” it falls into two parts of Kinneavy’s basic purposes of composition, which are referential and persuasive. This letter shows the readers that the writer is providing solutions to problems; in here they suggest the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power, which is supported by the experience that monitoring Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production is difficult, in which it falls into the exploratory part of referential. And in the first sentence of the letter, the writer wrote “we are writing you because we are convinced that…” and after giving some examples of the effect from Saddam Hussein, the writer suggests some policies toward Iraq. The reader can see there is a strong, powerful argument to persuade President Clinton to make such a decision. And in the last two paragraphs, they open with “We urge you to articulate this aim,” “We urge you to act decisively,” in which again is a very strong and powerful way to persuade the President to do action.

As a reader, I found out this letter is very persuasive by putting a lot of strong arguments and examples to support their thoughts which shows the Kinneavy’s genres can be burred. It is not necessary to distinguish the essay into one particular group. Mixing up can tell us the whole picture.

Short Assignment #1

In Michael Lemonick's article, "Honesty is Always the Best Policy", he brings us an ideas of being honest as a science-hournalism. He argues about the different purposes from the magazie publisher and a science-journalism.

Ethos
Michael Lemonick claim about the differnt points of view of sending the messages to the reader. An widely readed maganize, like Time, aim to publish their copies to public, just simply focus on the general interests. They usually just breifty talks about the facts and the results. Lemonick thinks that the magazine publisher pays too much attention on the readers' interest, which causes the nature of journalism change all over the time.

From the article, Lemonick states out.

"Faced with increasing competition from blogs and other online news outlets, newspapers and magazines were starting to move in the direction of shorter, more sensational, and more user-friendly stories." Also, his thought is "In putting the story together, I had to figure out how to characterize global warming. It was tempting to proclaim impending doom, which would grab attention and sell magazines". He claim the magazine's publisher do not focuse on the detail but try to exaggerate the results to get audiences' attention. Instead, as an science-journalism, Lemonick tends to send out a more detail information to audiences, on demans a certain degree of latitude to represent the complexities of a particular feild.

Pathos
Lemonick becomes an science-journalism was influenced by his physicist father, therefore, he has a great passion of being a science-journlism, and to convince the audiences about the imporatant of the science facts, to decribe how science actually works. In his article, he told audiences the reaon that he changed his job from a good wealthy job to a non-profit work in Climate Central, that he shows his passion of sending the right messages to auidences and being an honest journalism.

Logos
Lemonick has his own sense of judgement. He lives up to the organization's mission, tried to be clear that the underlying science of climate change is extremely solid, and the hand-wringing over "Climategate" and "Himalayagate". Focuse on the weaknesses prominence and mention, instead on the broader truth that climate change is real and potentially dangerous.


From Lemonick's article, the audience can feel his great passion of being a a science-journlaism and his strong ideas of the different points of views with the publishers thought his writing and experiences.