Informative genres

http://www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Trump-Donald.html

The atatched link is a biography on Donald Trump. It explains his life beginning at his childhood and going through his adult life and career. The purpose of this is simply to inform the readers on his life and background in a summarized manner. It highlights important and prominent parts of his life and tells the audience these points. The audience is anyone who is trying to learn more about Donald Trump, it could also be used in research. Ethos is used here as the author has used reliable sources to research information and attempts to convey knowledge with authority and write in a manner that shows that they understand their topic and what they write is trustworthy and well researched. The mode in this case is simply through the author's voice in writing. The medium is digital through the internet. As far as style, a mostly neutral tone is used by the author in order to keep his voice sounding unbiased and the language is simple and straight forward when informing the reader. The design of the paper is the organization of his life into different time periods as well as into paragraphs chunking different areas of his life into different ideas in order to create a sense of ease when navigating this article. The style and design keep it straight forward and allow the reader to form their own opinions as it is kept neutral. This piece could be adapted to form a timeline using pictures or even a movie of his life, a biography on film. It could also be used in an essay format or as research in a research paper.