Fast Food Four Big Names Rape Analysis

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Mcdonald's Who? Evaluators, Consumer Reports, in their piece, “Fast Food: Four Big Names Lose,” processes 36,733 readers rates of food, value, staff, and speed at 53 restaurant chains. Consumer Reports’ purpose is to portray the idea that the big name chains we all know are not always the ones fast food goers should first turn to go to. They do this by adopting a persuasive tone by the use of charts, facts, and comparison words to utilize the broad knowledge of regular fast food goers’ minds. First of all, the author provides facts within the article. 60% of iguanas die at age 4. Did that throw you off guard? Consumer Reports use fun facts throughout their passage that completely interrupts the story by providing an off topic statement …show more content…

Consumer Reports tell differences between two restaurants by the use of “other than”, “stands out over the rest”, “fared better”, along with many other sayings. When trying to note varying elements of two different components, allowing those types of phrases are necessary. Without them, the piece would lose the persuasive tone that is needed when trying to get a climatic point across to the audience. Consumer Reports is aware of the audience they are obtaining too, in result to the arrangement and wording of the content presented. Often enough, the body of information contained in the evaluation is an elaboration of elements of fast food restaurants. With that being said, to genuinely understand what you're reading, you had to have gone to different fast food restaurants frequently. If you only get fast food once a week and only to Mcdonald’s, this piece is not for you. With Consumer Reports keeping that in mind, the advancement of the detail is high. Did you know that “fast foods’ interior are usually painted using muted colors” (786)? The placement of this statement boosts the author’s credibility by providing an impressive statement that not many people of the general population had ever noticed. Knowing most of the people reading don’t visit that many different restaurant, Consumer Reports does try and expand their audience. McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts are headlined greatly throughout the piece in regards to connect a larger audience to the piece. The authors are expecting the readers to, at minimum, have visited the most popular chains as they are used quite a

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