Expository Writing Sample: Frothy Formations: Lattes in the Lab
Read the following short article, published in The New York Times, paying attention to the expository writing that explains the science of making a layered latte:
“Frothy Formations: Lattes in the Lab.” Authored by: Joanna Klein. Located at: search-proquest-com.proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/…/1
Now take a glance at the following journal article on the same subject, published in Nature Communications. Skim through the abstract and then scroll through the rest of the article:
“Laboratory Layered Latte.” Authored by: Nan Xue, Sepideh Khodaparast, Lailai Zhu, Janine K. Nunes, Hyoungsoo Kim and Howard A. Stone. Retrieved from: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01852-2
License: CC BY
Think about the rhetorical situation of each of these texts. How do components of the rhetorical situation (writer, audience, purpose, exigence, subject, context, genre) shape the outcome of the text?
APA Citations
Klein, J. (2017, Dec 19). Frothy Formations: Lattes in the Lab. New York Times. Retrieved from search-proquest-com.proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/…/1
Xue, N., Khodaparast, S., Zhu, L , Nunes, J.K., Kim, H., & Stone, H. (2017). Laboratory layered latte. Nature Communications, 8 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01852-2
