The document is a draft of a rhetorical analysis of a scholarly peer-reviewed article about the relationship between modern health worries and acceptance of functional foods. It defines key terms used in rhetorical analysis such as rhetorical situation, logos, ethos, constraints, and exigence. It then provides an overview of the peer-reviewed article, including its objective tone, inclusion of methodology/data/references, and purpose of informing readers about the research. It also summarizes sections of the article such as the abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion.
The document is a draft of a rhetorical analysis of a scholarly peer-reviewed article about the relationship between modern health worries and acceptance of functional foods. It defines key terms used in rhetorical analysis such as rhetorical situation, logos, ethos, constraints, and exigence. It then provides an overview of the peer-reviewed article, including its objective tone, inclusion of methodology/data/references, and purpose of informing readers about the research. It also summarizes sections of the article such as the abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion.
The document is a draft of a rhetorical analysis of a scholarly peer-reviewed article about the relationship between modern health worries and acceptance of functional foods. It defines key terms used in rhetorical analysis such as rhetorical situation, logos, ethos, constraints, and exigence. It then provides an overview of the peer-reviewed article, including its objective tone, inclusion of methodology/data/references, and purpose of informing readers about the research. It also summarizes sections of the article such as the abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion.
For this essay, I will be conducting a rhetorical analysis of an
article that is related to the semester topic that I choose, which is synthetic foods. Before we go on to doing the analysis, I would first define some of the lexis I will be using. Rhetorical Situation is the process in which the author or rhetor communicates to an audience about a certain topic with a purpose in mind. Logosis the authors method to substantiate his argument or statements. There are different ways of doing this, the most common being citing other experts on the topic being discussed, having quotations, giving important facts and data that support his argument, organizing the information in a way that can be understood and fulfills the purpose of the text. Ethosis the authors method to demonstrate experience on the topic being discussed. Appealing to ethos is often done by stating anterior experience, credentials or affiliation to a group or discourse community that investigates and and/or discusses the topic of the text. Constraints are the external factors that may alter the rhetorical situation. Some examples may be the beliefs or culture of the audience and the context or circumstances where the rhetorical situation is taking place. Exigenceis the reason why the rhetorical situation exists. Rhetorical situations are partially existent due to the context that they are found in, so they will always respond to a problem, issue or change. The article that I will analyze is a scholarly peer-reviewed article with the purpose of informing other researchers and
anyone else who wants information on the subject. The topic
which the researchersfrom the University of Auckland Daniel A. Devcich, Irene K. Pedersen and Keith J. Petrie, studied was the relation of modern health worries to the acceptance of functional foods. Since this is a scholarly peer-reviewed article, we could say that one of its principal characteristics is being objective, which implies not adding opinions or biased statements to the article. This kind of genre is also characterized by sections describing methodology, data and the references. The purpose of these articles is commonly to inform about a research, so there is little, if any, use of pathos or any type of persuasion. I believe the reason why this article waswrittenwas to explain or give insight into the health beliefs that lead some people to believe that functional foods can be beneficial, or alternatively cause some problems or undesired effects in the body. This topic has been in debate for a very long time and continues to be very controversial today. An aspect of scholarly articles that I like a lot is that they almost always have an abstract before the actual article. The function of an abstract is to describe the purpose, methodology, data collection, results and other important characteristics that give a general idea of what the research described in the article is about. After the abstract, the keywords used in the article are stated to assist anyone who wants to make finding the article easier. The introduction serves the purpose of giving us some historical background on health concerns related to functional foods, but the authors also cited articles written by other researchers to further their point and to be more credible by basing their statements on other studies. In the section for methods, the researchers define their sample population and the criteria and instruments they used to collect data for their research. In the results section of the article, they describe the data
they collected from their research and explain how they
acquired that data. In the discussion section, the researchers explain what their data means and how it affects society. Even though I consider the article is at getting its point across, just like in any rhetorical situation, there are factors or constraints that can limit or change the meaning of what the researchers wanted to inform. For example, a nutritionist may interpret the health issues that could be related to functional food differently than someone working in the food industry or a member of the general public might. So, we could say our constraints are the knowledge or experience you had with this topic beforehand, the eating habits which you are used to, how much concern you have relating to alimentation or diet, etc. In general, I think this article is well organized, its easy to read and it provided me with important information I will later use for my own article.I can use the reference page to find other articles related to this topic, which is really convenient. It presented the information in a clear form.