36 Hours in Philadelphia

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/travel/36-hours-in-philadelphia.html?_r=0

Philadelphia, a bustling city with numerous shops and restaurants, has seen some eye opening changes in the past decade. The city has added world class museums, contains one of the best colleges in the world, and has new cultural energy. An event called 36 Hours took place in Philadelphia on Friday at 3 PM and ended on Sunday at 12 PM. The event consisted of attending exotic restaurants, a museum, and many places traditional just to Philadelphia.

The purpose of this article, by Freda Moon, was to inform readers of the event in hopes that the word would get out there and more people would attend. The audience of this article is adults who would enjoy attending this day and a half event. Te event started on January 4th and this article was published on January 3rd, so the exigence was that the event was coming up and people needed to be aware of the festivities.

The main rhetorical device used in this article was structure. Instead of writing the schedule of events in paragraph form, Freda Moon structured the article in chronological order. She would write, for example, Friday 3 PM 1. Start At The Beginning. Then under that heading she would explain the event and tell readers what they would be doing there. She did this all throughout the article up until the very last event. This technique was very effective in letting the reader truly see their itinerary for the event.

Yes, Freda Moon did achieve her goal. She made the event seem like an interesting and exciting thing to take part of. After reading this article, the reader is left wanting to attend something so special.