Week 4 Assignment 2/9

 My genre is online environmental news articles. My primary audience will be the community of the Central Coast and L.A. County regions. Secondary audiences might include people who live near forests or care about their wellbeing. The topic of my article will be the fires that spread through those two regions as well as the following mudslide in Montecito. It will argue for people to be more aware and cautious when interacting with the forest, since not doing so can have extremely dangerous repercussions (the fire was caused by an illegal cooking fire). This argument is important to the reader because both the fires and the mudslide had a direct negative impact on the people of California, especially in those regions (loss of plant/animal life, smoke pollution, property destruction, death, etc.). I will, of course, appeal to the reader's reasoning (natural disasters affect everyone), emotions (loss of life, destruction), and morals (the forest should be protected for its own sake as well as for others). I'll refrain from any sort of bias while presenting accurate information and references for credibility.

 "Illegal cooking fire caused devestating Skirball Fire in Southern Calif., officials say." CBS News. 12 December 2017. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/skirball-fire-cause-illegal-cooking-fire-los-angeles-fire-department/

Farber, Madeline. "California mudslides: where and why they happen." FOX News. 9 February 2018. https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/09/california-mudslides-where-and-why-happen.amp.html 

 "Understanding Fire Effects on the Environment." US Forest Service. 14 September 2015. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/research/fire/fire-effects.shtml

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