Ticket to Sucess

            Preparing for a job interview requires a lot of though about how someone portrays themselves too others around them.  Elements such as personal appearance and character are taken into consideration.   While both those elements are great things to focus on and are needed for a job interview the article  “ A ticket towork..  Or a ticket out” points our attention to another element that interviewers are focusing on which, is the person their interviewing’s writing abilities and; rather their current employees are demonstrating good writing capabilities.  Through exploration of the articles structure I plan to demonstrate how the article is one that is an citizen explanatory genre and how it mediates discourse.

The structure of this article is one that is easy to follow. Each section begins with a theme and then 
expounds upon those themes.  The author sets up the whole discourse situation by saying “Survey results indicate that writing is a ticket to professional opportunity” (College Board 3). The author writes this in their opening paragraph to inform the citizens who are part of his discourse community my focus is on how writing can enhance your professional opportunities.   

           When the author’s main sections are broken down into smaller parts there is a discussion section.  Found within the discussion section are the networks that were surveyed on their thoughts. Not even studying any of the other parts of the article you see how the author uses the comments of employers to create discourse within discourse.  When reading the discussion sections sometimes you find that the author purposely structured the questions the way they did just to talk to each other.

            A unique constituent that this author used was the amount of graphs that were contained within the article. The graphs acted, as support to the main discourse that the author was trying to argue which is writing is needed to further your employment opportunities.  The graphs also acted as great visuals to simply the author’s research.  Using the graph further proves that the author was trying to explain to his citizens how different employers felt about different situations. Including the graphs showed that the author really set down and talked with employers about their thoughts so that he could better help their audience.

            The authors language choice implied that his implied audience was for young adults or parents because he didn’t use a lot of technical jargon he used simple everyday language The actual audience the author was writing for was students who are members off college board.com.  Based off the authors arguments in his closing statement it looked as if they were trying to draw in the people of the educational system because they felt that the issue starts in the classroom and if something is not done their then it can have its effects on students when they go to graduate and get a job after graduation. The author really stresses to his audience as a whole though that its about more than you working on your appearance and interviewing skills if you aren’t even able to write a good resume than you wont even get a ticket to the party.