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.