READING 7.1- ‘Dieting: a waist is a terrible thing to mind’

1. Topic
The article focuses on the dieting issue as the main subject of the discussion.

2. Content
The article covers a large scope of the hot potato among women, which is the trend of weight control. The issues very close to physical and mental health in addition to the role played by the weight loss products provider. The writer also includes newest information based on the recent research of weight loss.

3. Source
The article comes from ‘What you can change and what you can’t’ in The complete guide to self-improvement, by Martin Seligman.

4. Audience
The article is written for people who feel they are suffering from some particular problem relating to social or medical insufficiency or bad conditions that affect their life.

5. The rhetorical functions
The article is designed to inform people about how danger that the weight loss programs that is available nowadays. In spite of the danger, the weight loss programs also full of pitfalls that always hiding from the eye of the weight loss users. Besides, the article give warning to the readers to avoid them from easily believe in the claims that made by the product providers and to reassure them that their current weight is already good enough.

6. Purpose
The article aims to inform, warn and reassure the readers who are really concern about the weight to slow down their action in purchasing the expensive weight loss product. Furthermore, the article aims to make the people feel comfortable and satisfied with their current weight.

7. Perspective
The writer supports his argument by highly criticize both commercial weight loss products and any other weight loss programs. He argues that weight loss products does not work that much and never give satisfaction to the users.

8. Positioning
The article describes weight loss as only a commercial strategy for the providers to gain much more profit rather than give the kindest benefits to its users.

9. Impact
The effect on readers is likely to be broke the myths of ideal weight that is typically manipulate the people’s mind. To have and appreciate the recent weight is the best solution to live life happily.

10. Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because the title did its work by obviously stating that diet is such the worst thing that should be totally vanished from people’s mind.