Dieting

Topic
The article focuses on dieting where it covers on a wide range of current issues relating to the phenomenon of weight control. The author provides on up – to – date information based on recent research into weight loss too.
Content
The article covers about lots of commercial had been provides due to the weight loss products.
Source
The article comes from the book entitled The Complete Guide to Self – Improvement under the topic What You Can Changed and What You Can’t whereby the writer is Martin Seligman.
Audience
The article is written for people who feel they suffer from some social or medical deficiency or condition which negatively affects their life.
The rhetorical function
The article is designed to attract the reader because they are under the impression that a book can provide them with clues to the solution of their problem.
Purpose
The article aim to simultaneously inform, warm and reassure people who are concerned about their weight loss products and to make them feel more comfortable with their current weight.
Perspective
The stance taken in the article is the writer argues that weight loss products simply do not work. Furthermore, he said that the – more – you – lose – the – more – you – gain and when we try to lose weight, our bodies rebel.
Positioning
The article describes about the weight loss companies as powerful and predatory where the producers will earn lots of money, but the consumers do not get the benefits of the weight loss products at all.
Impact
The effect on readers is likely to be the consumers may debunk some pervasive myths about ideal weight which serve commercial interests and also to reassuring people that there is nothing wrong with their current weight and that they have failed to diet successfully in the past, it was not their fault.
Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are not significant because there is no picture in the article. But, the writer provide with all the diagrams and tables where the readers can take a look at what the information given. This can make the readers believe about what the writer had said in the article.