Audience and Purpose
The purpose of the website Polaris is to bring awareness of the issue of human trafficking as well as what Polaris does so you can help Polaris take action against human trafficking. This is clear when you look up at the page titles: What We Do, Human Trafficking, and Take Action. The audience Polaris is trying to reach out to people seeking help and those who are willing to help or donating to the cause. They have a page called Give, which is where you can donate money to Polaris, and it is color coded very different then the rest of the pages as if it was meant to stand out, A help line number is also displayed on every page you visit on the website. Polaris’s audience and purpose tie in well together because a person who want to help a situation is going to want to know who they are dealing with, what concern is, and how they can help. A person is not going to help or seek help from an organization without any background into what they do. When it comes to the paper being formal or informal, it comes of as being formal. There is not many specialized vocabulary except for NHTRC, which stands for National Human Trafficking Resource Center, and its not hard for the audience to figure out what it is because they have it in the top right corner of the screen.
Rhetorical Issues
In the website it does not much if not any kind of material that backs up it credibility. The only thing that has credibility seems to be some of their articles that they post. On the other hand, they don’t provide a list of sources for the information and facts they provide on their Human Trafficking page as if they came of with it themselves. The only thing that sounds creditable is a hotline called The National Human Trafficking Resource Center that in mentioned often but Polaris powers it. This lack of ethos hurts Polaris’s credibility because they could have just come up with all of this stuff. While there is not a great amount of pathos it is there. They do provide at the end of each page a clients account on how Polaris has helped them. For instance one of the client quotes says, "Thanks to Polaris Project, I have a job, a home, and many friends that help me when I need it. I am making a life of my own" (Polaris, 2015). This quote makes the audience feel happy that he or she would be able to help people being trafficked. It also shows pictures of woman throughout the website and men working with descriptions saying how it is done without pay. These pictures make the audience feel sad to know this is happening in our world. Lastly, it comes down to the Logos. The website uses a bunch of different facts that show the significance of how bad human trafficking is in the world. They also have a variety of charts on different pages; for instance, on the home page there is a chart that shows the human trafficking trends in the United States.
Structure and Delivery
It being a website it gives this genre a lot of space to put a lot of information, which brings in the problem of organization. Polaris did a good job in organizing and making it easy for it audience to find what they are looking for. Almost every page has visuals, which makes it appealing to the eyes, and they organize the visuals great on every page not making them distracting from the text. On the Human trafficking page they bold to show the importance of the facts being told. For example, “The International Labor Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally, including 5.5 million children. 55% are women and girls” (Polaris, 2015). The organization and the visuals of the website make it look visually appealing to the eyes, and the occasional boldness of some texts does the same by making important text really pop out.
My Opinion
The webpage was very orginized and easy to move around and find things in the website. The one thing I had a problem with was the Give page I did not like the way they made it a different color to make it pop out. It almost seemed like all they wanted was money. It was not only that but it comes up in other places on different pages to donate. On the other hand, the information seemed logical and it resembled the information given to me by my first genre. Overall, I think it was a good website with good visuals and facts but felt a little uneasy about their goals, which is my own opinion.
The purpose of the website Polaris is to bring awareness of the issue of human trafficking as well as what Polaris does so you can help Polaris take action against human trafficking. This is clear when you look up at the page titles: What We Do, Human Trafficking, and Take Action. The audience Polaris is trying to reach out to people seeking help and those who are willing to help or donating to the cause. They have a page called Give, which is where you can donate money to Polaris, and it is color coded very different then the rest of the pages as if it was meant to stand out, A help line number is also displayed on every page you visit on the website. Polaris’s audience and purpose tie in well together because a person who want to help a situation is going to want to know who they are dealing with, what concern is, and how they can help. A person is not going to help or seek help from an organization without any background into what they do. When it comes to the paper being formal or informal, it comes of as being formal. There is not many specialized vocabulary except for NHTRC, which stands for National Human Trafficking Resource Center, and its not hard for the audience to figure out what it is because they have it in the top right corner of the screen.
Rhetorical Issues
In the website it does not much if not any kind of material that backs up it credibility. The only thing that has credibility seems to be some of their articles that they post. On the other hand, they don’t provide a list of sources for the information and facts they provide on their Human Trafficking page as if they came of with it themselves. The only thing that sounds creditable is a hotline called The National Human Trafficking Resource Center that in mentioned often but Polaris powers it. This lack of ethos hurts Polaris’s credibility because they could have just come up with all of this stuff. While there is not a great amount of pathos it is there. They do provide at the end of each page a clients account on how Polaris has helped them. For instance one of the client quotes says, "Thanks to Polaris Project, I have a job, a home, and many friends that help me when I need it. I am making a life of my own" (Polaris, 2015). This quote makes the audience feel happy that he or she would be able to help people being trafficked. It also shows pictures of woman throughout the website and men working with descriptions saying how it is done without pay. These pictures make the audience feel sad to know this is happening in our world. Lastly, it comes down to the Logos. The website uses a bunch of different facts that show the significance of how bad human trafficking is in the world. They also have a variety of charts on different pages; for instance, on the home page there is a chart that shows the human trafficking trends in the United States.
Structure and Delivery
It being a website it gives this genre a lot of space to put a lot of information, which brings in the problem of organization. Polaris did a good job in organizing and making it easy for it audience to find what they are looking for. Almost every page has visuals, which makes it appealing to the eyes, and they organize the visuals great on every page not making them distracting from the text. On the Human trafficking page they bold to show the importance of the facts being told. For example, “The International Labor Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally, including 5.5 million children. 55% are women and girls” (Polaris, 2015). The organization and the visuals of the website make it look visually appealing to the eyes, and the occasional boldness of some texts does the same by making important text really pop out.
My Opinion
The webpage was very orginized and easy to move around and find things in the website. The one thing I had a problem with was the Give page I did not like the way they made it a different color to make it pop out. It almost seemed like all they wanted was money. It was not only that but it comes up in other places on different pages to donate. On the other hand, the information seemed logical and it resembled the information given to me by my first genre. Overall, I think it was a good website with good visuals and facts but felt a little uneasy about their goals, which is my own opinion.