Expository text: Aim and purpose
• Numerous documentaries function as a rhetoric tool that aims to inform, persuade and entertain the audience.
• Various expository texts use voice as a distinctive tool to propose an objective and logical argument towards the key subject.
• By coordinating a voice within the text, the author is able to purposely manipulate the audience by agreeing to the the adopted singular perspective.
• With critical analysis, such rhetoric tool allows the emergence of multiple voices.
Contextual information
• The documentary Born into Brothels (2004) by British photo journalists and filmmaker, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman tells the narrative of a group of children whose mothers are sex-workers in Calcutta’s Red Light
• Numerous documentaries function as a rhetoric tool that aims to inform, persuade and entertain the audience.
• Various expository texts use voice as a distinctive tool to propose an objective and logical argument towards the key subject.
• By coordinating a voice within the text, the author is able to purposely manipulate the audience by agreeing to the the adopted singular perspective.
• With critical analysis, such rhetoric tool allows the emergence of multiple voices.
Contextual information
• The documentary Born into Brothels (2004) by British photo journalists and filmmaker, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman tells the narrative of a group of children whose mothers are sex-workers in Calcutta’s Red Light