Source analysis

In the three academic sources their purpose are all centered around the same thing which is, trying to persuade an outsider person to think of the topic using their hypothesis or their theory. For example in the first source it tries to persuade a company to use their strategy and way thinking to help them with their economic growth. The author says, "This paper aims at assisting OEMs in the development of their remanufacturing strategy, with an outlook of pursuing the opportunities presented by the inherent uncertainties. " The author's new way of thinking is opportunities through uncertainties and the company allows the author to apply his strategy in the real world which in turn can help persuade the reader to think the way the author does once he presents all of this information. As for the non-academic sources the memo and email have the same purpose, to inform coworkers of information or changes that need to be done. This differs from the academic sources that are trying to persuade and show their extensive knowledge to the readers. The third non-academic source is a opinion article about economics. This article is different from the other two sources because it doesn’t give the obvious slant; the only thing the only thing the article gives  his opinion back up with facts. This very unusual because we were always taught to give both sides of the argument and then use facts to support your conclusion. With the differences in the purposes between non-academic and academic writing comes the different conventions / components of rhetorical situations.