Infant Vaccination Analysis

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Zheng 1 Professor L.Komarzynski Writing, Rhetoric and Persuasion 27 Aug 2015 Analysis on Documents of Infant Vaccination We know it’s painful to watch baby get poked and even worse to hear the inevitable crying when vaccinating. Yet a lot of people may be confused about the contradictory vaccination information. Some may ask "Why should parents consider getting their baby vaccinated?" or "Is vaccinated 100% effective?" or "Will it bring terrible side-effects?"etc. In term of these questions, there are numerous documents addressing on this topic. And this essay is aimed at exploring two documents of infant vaccination to demonstrate the significance of adopting appropriate writing style when dealing with different arguments…show more content…
And for the second document, it is a fact-sheet about a specific vaccine. That is to say, the audience is either interested in the dTpa vaccine against whooping cough or is going to take the vaccine. So the fact-sheet adopts a clear cut way of using informative bold small headlines which are mostly presented in interrogative sentence providing specific and most-inquired information from what is a dTpa vaccine, why should parents and infants being vaccinated to its possible side-effects and Care after vaccination and what else can do for protection. By doing so, it attracts audience’s attention quickly and audience can find the information needed directly and efficiently. It well represents the writing style that Adam Deverell illustrates in his article Corporate Writing: Gain Power over Hearts and Minds, that is to be crisp, brief and heavily edited. (129) So it is a quite useful and persuasive document because it fulfill its purpose--- to make people informed of all the necessary information before taking dTpa vaccine. Zheng 3 There are different ways of making the documents more readable. The first document draws audience’s attention in a parallel way by comparing…show more content…
Though the contents, purpose and audience of "Vaccination Information" from Australian Vaccination Network and "Facts about Whooping Cough Vaccine (diptheria, tetanus and pertussis - dTpa vaccine)." from Department of Health (WA) are totally different, by choosing the appropriate writing style, they are both very persuasive and informative documents that support their arguments and serve well to their corresponding audience. Zheng 4 Zheng 5 Works Cited Deverelle, Adam. "Corporate Writing: Gain Power over Hearts and Minds. In Power Prose: Writing Skills for the Media, edited by Carolyn Lee, 124-135. South Yarra, Vic: Hardie Grant Books, 2004. Print. Dwyer, Judith. “Business Writing Style: Plain English.” In Communication in Business.” Sydney: Prentice Hall, 2002. Chapter 9. pp. 184-209. Print. "Facts about Whooping Cough Vaccine (diptheria, tetanus and pertussis - dTpa vaccine)." Delivering a Healthy WA. Dept of Health (WA), n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2015. "Vaccination Information." Australian Vaccination Network, Apr. 2012. Web. 27 Aug.

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