“Genres have the power to help or hurt human interactions, to ease communication or to deceive, to enable someone to speak or to discourage someone from saying something different” (Kerry Dirk). The word “genre” has a prototypical definition of “category”, one needs to analyze the definition on a deeper level to understand that “genre” means more than just “category”. It is to an extent a “[tool] to help people to get things done”, as described in the article “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk. The literal definition of genre is a category of artistic compositions, in literature, characterized by similarities in form, content or context, but what makes one genre unique from another is its writing elements such as rhetorical devices, targeted
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Is there a criteria? Is it the context or form? Well, when analyzing the blog How Far Will He Go? The 5 Biggest Questions About Trump’s Immigration Policy by Lauren Box, one may be able to distinguish the difference between the political blog and the previous political articles just by analyzing the format and the overall tone of piece of literature. The political blog is written and presented more creatively to the audience when compared to a political article and the targeted audience for this piece of literature is comparable to that of Alex Nowrasteh’s piece, but due to its specific title, it is limited to a more specific audience. The news blog that is written by Lauren Fox is comprised of rhetoric devices such as pathos and well as locos to visualize Donald Trump in a negative aspect. Just by the title of the political blog “How Far Will He Go? The Biggest Question About Trump’s Immigration Plan” (Lauren Box), one may see a direct evidence that the author uses a persuasive literary device to affects the reader's thoughts on the subject. In this case the blogger specially uses pathos (emotional appeal) to interact with the audience and appeal to their emotions by asking sympathetic question such as “What will become of the DREAMers” (Lauren Box) which causes the readers to ponder over Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan. By asking a specific question, it allows the audience to interact with the piece of literature and to an extend affects reader’s view on the subject. She uses logos such as citing facts, statistics and naming certain authorities on the subject such as Frank Sharry in order to ensure factuality in the piece of work. Judging by the tone and the overall structure of the blog, it can be concluded that the target audience is someone that is against Donald Trump’s reform and is trying to see identify how the reforms will affect the larger community.
Is there a criteria? Is it the context or form? Well, when analyzing the blog How Far Will He Go? The 5 Biggest Questions About Trump’s Immigration Policy by Lauren Box, one may be able to distinguish the difference between the political blog and the previous political articles just by analyzing the format and the overall tone of piece of literature. The political blog is written and presented more creatively to the audience when compared to a political article and the targeted audience for this piece of literature is comparable to that of Alex Nowrasteh’s piece, but due to its specific title, it is limited to a more specific audience. The news blog that is written by Lauren Fox is comprised of rhetoric devices such as pathos and well as locos to visualize Donald Trump in a negative aspect. Just by the title of the political blog “How Far Will He Go? The Biggest Question About Trump’s Immigration Plan” (Lauren Box), one may see a direct evidence that the author uses a persuasive literary device to affects the reader's thoughts on the subject. In this case the blogger specially uses pathos (emotional appeal) to interact with the audience and appeal to their emotions by asking sympathetic question such as “What will become of the DREAMers” (Lauren Box) which causes the readers to ponder over Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan. By asking a specific question, it allows the audience to interact with the piece of literature and to an extend affects reader’s view on the subject. She uses logos such as citing facts, statistics and naming certain authorities on the subject such as Frank Sharry in order to ensure factuality in the piece of work. Judging by the tone and the overall structure of the blog, it can be concluded that the target audience is someone that is against Donald Trump’s reform and is trying to see identify how the reforms will affect the larger community.