I would like to talk about the Kairos of this article. Kairos is presenting your argument at the right time, in the right circumstances, in the right place and to the right audience. I think it pretty clever that USA Today looked at their immigration concerns in a different light. Instead of focusing on illegal immigration and the disputes on that, they talk about legal immigrants who come for college and then stay. I think that the timing to address this was perfect. The reason being is that people have been frustrated with illegal immigrants taking the lowend jobs for so long that action seems to be dying out. So USA Today brings us to the attention that legal immigrants are also taking jobs in the U.S. They are taking the high paying jobs. Now in order to get positive responses on this article USA Today needs to make sure that the right people are reading this article and under the right circumstances. Because USA Today is a newspaper I don’t believe it will be hard for the right audience to come upon this article. The right audience would be those who are interested in immigration and/or those who are also against immigration. The very best circumstances would be while a bill, law, or proposition on immigration is in the process of being voted for and passed. This article was published on May 12,2009. So all of the voting was obviously finished. But I still believe it was a good time to publish it. The reason why is because opinions were slowing down about the results of the current elections, and the public would need something else to focus their attention on. Legal immigrants taking the jobs that many Americans so desperately need seemed like a great idea.
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A few suggestions:
ReplyDelete-name the author
-try to be specific about who the audience might be
-stay focused on whichever rhetorical principle you've chosen:quoting a congressman may help ethos, but doesn't seem connected to kairos (the "right person" is who you talk to, not who you quote)