Modern Language Association’s website
The topic discussed in Modern Language Association’s website is of interest to me as I am a humanity student and the issues addressed in the article are issues affecting both graduate and undergraduate humanity students which including the downsizing of human subjects in institutions of higher learning and the lack of jobs for humanity graduate students. This issues relate to my field of study and are of interest to me as they are some of the potential problems I could face as a humanities graduate student in the near future.
Practitioners and scholars in my field engage with this topic about issues encountered in the field of humanities as they could make improvements on their teaching and research methods to reduce some of these issues encountered in the field. By doing so, they will achieve the central goal of humanities, which is to help students develop skills in critical thinking, research, reading and writing thus assisting us students become efficient oral and written communicators.
This article also imposes certain genre conventions in its writing such as theme, setting, mood and structure. The main theme of the article is the theme of curbing humanities-related issues. The whole article centres its whole argument around this theme. The setting of the article relates to any institution of higher learning that provides humanity course for its students. The mood showcased in the report is sad due to the issues encountered and also determined to deal with those issues. The structure of the article is based on two sub-paragraphs whereby the first paragraph is titled ‘ What kind of future’ and the second is titled ‘The Taks Moving Forward’. The first paragraph presents the issues encountered, while the second paragraph outlines possible alternatives in managing the problems presented in the first paragraph.
The article also possesses all principles of a rhetoric situation which include: text, author, audience, purpose and setting. Therefore regarding the rhetoric situation of the genre, the article is in written form. The author of the article is Judith. The audience of the article is both humanity students and humanity instructors. The purpose of this article is to create awareness of issues experienced by humanity students and deduce solutions for those issues.
The setting of the article according to time was published in 2020 shortly after the pandemic started showcased when the author states that the issues addressed were still existent before the covid-19 pandemic but have only become much worse after the pandemic this revealing the time the article was published. The setting and environment of the article relate to any institution of higher learning.