WP2 COMMENT

1. When it has come to 2019, human trafficking is still one of the major crime in the United States. The concept of slavery has long been abandoned by the modern society. However, the criminal group could still perform such crime without the notice of the majority of the society, which is unacceptable. We should feel grateful to Savannah Parvu as she could stand out in front of the public to tell us about how brutal is the reality. It was so disheartening to read the part that the nurse and the hotel staff turn a blind eye on human trafficking when they are potentially the reporting group that could help the police. That is like cowardice to me, making no sense. How could someone fall into sleep nicely when they know there is someone endanger under their noses. I just cannot understand that. Also, has anyone noticed that drug abuse is also a huge cause to many other crimes? Just like Savannah Parvu’s parents, they sold Savannah Parvu for money to get drug. I guess most of us here just underestimated the power of drug. There are way too many crimes are driven by drugs. I’m glad that USA TODAY has published this article to raise our awareness of human trafficking. Every citizen has the duty to protect our fellas in the community. There is no reason for us to tolerate human trafficking going on in one of the freest countries on the Earth. I believe there are many parents are reading this news. I wouldn’t think any of you would like to have your children experience this, right?

2.

This could be a controversial topic tho. Would it be more efficient to fund other resource to protect our people other than building a wall? To be honest, I do not know much about building the wall. And there is a big question regarding this. What is the major ethnicity of the crime group? If they are mostly from Latin America, building a wall could be a good way to prevent human trafficking. But how could we possibly stop the cases that is already happening inside the United States? If we go a little further, what if the majority of them are the US citizen? That would make no sense to waste all the money to build an unnecessary wall to prevent such an irrelevant crime from Latin American. I think a good way to prevent human trafficking from happening could be investing in the promotion to tell our people how to protect themselves from human trafficking. Many of the victims have the chance to save themselves but they are just too afraid to do that or they don’t even know what to do.

OPED

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-goldberg-baby-nancy-black-doll-shindana-20190312-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-baker-disapproval-vote-senate-emergency-declaration-20190312-story.html

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/articles/2018-02-21/are-google-and-facebook-monopolies

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/12/technology-prevent-men-commercial-sex-trafficking-industry-addiction-abuse-column/2650520002/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/09/sex-trafficking-plain-sight-but-invisible-column/3096311002/

PB1B

Part 1: Think about a public argument that you’d like to make for WP1. What issues do you care about what? What would you like to advocate for or against, and why?

In my MP1, I would like to write about gun control. I started considering this problem when I first came to the USA because there it is illegal to own personal guns in my country. I agree with the idea of gun control for the safety of US citizens.


Part 2: Looking ahead to WP1, you’ll need to write a Letter to the Editor (actually two of them!). Take a look back at the 3 examples that you collected for PB1A.  What “moves” (decisions, techniques, or strategies) did these writers made which you’d like to consider using in some way for your WP1 assignment.

Look back to the three letters to the editor I chose, there are some "moves" that writers use to enhance their letter. The writer use impressive evidence to prove that it is bad for health to smoke from a young age. "It is a fact that secondhand smoke is a health hazard. It contains more than 4,000 chemicals."(Connie Kerr) Then, the strong words that writer use to convince audience such as "I believe","it is a fact that..."and "I am a firm believer". 




Part 3: Evaluate these three Letters to the Editor: Who do you think wrote the best LTE, and why?  What “didn’t work” and why? As you answer these questions, think about the intended audience of each piece.

I think the letter wrote by Connie Kerr is the best LTE because they writer use clear structure and intensive evidence to support his expression of his opinion. The target audience is workers in smoke environment and government. So the writer use more formal language to claim his opinion which can convince the reader in a effective way. But in the other two letter to the editor the writer doesn't use a lot of examples or evidence to prove the ideas they said. And the language is informal than the one Connie Kerr wrote.

PB1A Letter to the Editor

Here is a letter about smoke and cigarettes ：
1. Smoking cigarettes should be illegal

2. Prevent youth smoking, raise the cigarette tax

3. No-smoking ban should include all workplaces

conventions:

A letter to the editor aims at providing a personal opinion regarding the issue(s) discussed in the previously published article and is written in the first person viewpoint.
Also, the opening statement serves to introduce the issues as well as the writer’s opinion. 
Most notably, the letter to the editor is finalized with the name and state of the writer, which helps other readers to respond to distinct letters to the editor in the newspaper’s future editions.

• Exigence: What prompted the writer’s need to communicate in this particular text?  What’s the urgency behind the need to enact this genre? Why this, why now?  What event/moment sparked the creation of this text?

1. cigarettes is really bad for our health and leads to many dangerous diseases. and secondary smoke can also affects people around you.

2. cigarette addiction is serious in our society and it's necessary to increase the price of cigarette to avoid teenager smoker

3. the secondary smoke can also harm people's health and in the bars and restaurants, smoke can harm workers in a long time period.

• Writer: Who is the writer?   What do we know about them?  What’s their name? Are they affiliated with a particular organization/company?  What’s their role/position?

1. Laura Pedroza

2. Dog Cox M.D., Grove

3. Weatherford Democrat (a concerned citizen and a volunteer of the American Heart Association.)

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• Primary/Intended Audience: Who is the intended/primary audience for this genre?  Is it addressed to a particular person? If so, what’s their name, what organization/company are they affiliated with, and what’s their position/role?  Is it a group? If so, what’s their organizational mission and/or identity?

1.smokers and their families

2. government and administrative staff

3. government and boss

• Secondary/Peripheral Audience:  What additional peripheral/secondary audiences might play a role in how we can understand this genre?  Might other people be interested in the message that’s being communicated? Could the writer have additional people in mind beyond the specific person(s) that they’ve contacted?  Who else could be “at stake” regarding the ideas embedded within this text?

1. teenagers and children 

2. parents and teenagers 

3. workers and smokers 

• Writer’s Purpose/Goal: What’s the writer’s goal?  What are they trying to achieve?  What outcome(s) do they hope that this piece of communication achieves?

1. cautionary for people who are smoking or who wants to be a smoker

2. to show the harm of cigarette and the solution of it.

3. indicate the harm of smoke and proposing a smoke-free work ordinance

• Context/Background Info: What additional information is necessary to make the most sense of this rhetorical situation?  Is there any sort of history between

2.Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the nation, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

3.Fifty years after the first Surgeon General’s report we have learned that the estimated increase in risk for stroke from exposure to secondhand smoke is about 20 percent to 30 percent.

A letter to the editor is a highly persuasive device.  Essentially, it is written by any newspaper reader to directly respond to a formerly published letter, article, or any other issues of current interest in that given. Writers use clever word choice and techniques like pun and alliteration to create a point of interest. The points of substantiation in the letter to the editor form its main part, and the writer draws from their personal opinions, thoughts, and experiences to substantiate their argument. 

Who Am I ?

My name is yiming zhang. I am 20 years old. I am from Tianjin. It is a bustling city next to Beijing. I came to Florida in the United States 3 years ago and finished high school. Now I am here to learn new things. I am very happy to come here to study with you guys. I am a very easy-going person. I usually like to play games or go out to eat and sing with friends.