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Genre Analysis

Silvia Bell

RWS 1302

University of Texas at El Paso

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Introduction

The B3D (Biomedical Device, Delivery, and Diagnostic Lab) involves the subject of

engineering. The B3D is about research, innovation, and fabrication of biomedical implements.

Research topics include tissue engineering, cell bioprinting, nanoparticle drug delivery, low-

resource diagnostics, and the early detection of cancer.

The genres that were analyzed were the non-scholarly digital source from the website

CNN.com, The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human organs by Griggs, B. and the other was a

journal from JSTOR, Tissue Engineering written by Langer R. and Vicanti. Both genres talk

about tissue engineering and how it is involved in every day lives. I selected these genres

because in my opinion CNN is a good source that talks about good news and more innovations.

The other genre which is a journal from JSTOR talks about the tissue engineering and how

engineering is applied to the medical field.

These sources are related to my topic because they both talk about tissue engineering and

ways to develop things for the medical field. Also, both of the sources talk about cell bio printing

and having to come up with ways to do 3D printing. The genre that made me obtain more

knowledge was the scholarly journal because it had more resources to learn about tissue

engineering.

Audience and Purpose

Both of the genres were very useful in trying to understand which genre was more

appealing. The first genre from CNN.com is called The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human

organs and the audience that it tries attract are adults that are in the medical field because it used
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a more advanced vocabulary or medical jarjon that only older people would understand. The

adults that it would attract would be people more specifically in the medical environment.

Everyone in any field of study other groups would be able to read it but they need to know the

specific vocabulary for the article. For example, in the article it states, Then again, this swiftly

evolving technology may create new moral conundrums. (Griggs,2014). That kind of

vocabulary like conundrum, many people might not know. The purpose of the non-scholarly

journal is to persuade people into the new kinds of ways of innovating technology in the bio

printing and tissue engineering department.

The second genre which is the journal tries to target the same audience as the first one

which are adults that are involved in the medical field like researchers and doctors. The journal

explains about isolated cells or cell substitutes, which is something researchers would be

interested in. The purpose of the scholarly journal is to persuade people into reading what tissue

engineering is about and how specific people are doing research to think of innovative ways to

have this subject become more advanced in the health care department.

Structure and Delivery

The structure of both genres are very different since they come from two separate places.

The scholarly journal is designed to look like an academic scholar made this paper because of all

the facts and numbers to help us understand what it is about. The facts that the journal uses is

letting us know the types of strategies that have been adopted for the creation of new tissue. The

article is separated equally into parts so it is easy to understand.

The website article is designed differently because the font is way bigger in the article

and more spaced out. The article has way more media to establish to emphasize what it is writing

about.
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Rhetorical Issues

When talking about the rhetorical issues in genre analysis we talk about the types of

modes of persuasion which are ethos, logos, and pathos. They all have different ways of

persuading into a genre.

The first one ethos relates with which of the genres out of the two was more reliable and

credible sources. The scholarly journal from JSTOR was better for that because the journal was

filled with so much information about tissue engineering. The scholarly journal even helps you

identify what tissue engineering is which states Tissue engineering is a field that pertains

engineering and life sciences into the expansion of biological substitutes that reinstate, preserve,

or improve tissue fuctions. (Langer and Vicanti, 1993). The references at the end of the journal

help the scholarly journal have credibility to what it is talking about.

The second one is logos which is logic. Logos helps us to gain knowledge by for

example, using statistics or numbers to help us understand. The genre that help develop more

knowledge for the audience to get persuaded in was the scholarly journal. It states in the journal,

The loss or failure of an organ or tissue is one of the most expensive and tragic problems in

human health care. (Langer and Vicanti, 1993). The scholarly journal talks so much about the

types of tissue engineering has to offer and how it is better than having to have organ donors or

failure while having the transplant.

The last one is pathos which is emotional appeal. Patos will want you to build a desire or

want in order to read the article. The genre that had the most emotional appeal was the website

non-scholarly journal from CNN because of all the pictures in the article that shows the way they

are making everything to use with the 3D printer. The fonts and boldness made it easy to read the

article. The video that first comes out in the article to get the attention of the reader because its

the first thing you see and everyone would rather see a video than read the whole thing.
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Conclusion

The scholarly journal was more affective in conveying its message because it went more

in depth of what tissue engineering is about and how it came to be. It helped to start emerging

into more things in the medical field.

The scholarly journal is of greater value to scholars to buliding new knowledge because

the journal has better credibility than the website article from CNN had.

References

Griggs, B. (2014, April). The next frontier in 3D printing: Human organs. Retrieved from

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/tech/innovation/3-d-printing-human-organs/

Langer, R., & Vacanti, J. P. (1993). Tissue engineering. Science, Vol. 260(5110), 920-926.

Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2885618