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            We will be comparing and contrasting the rhetorical features and conventions within two different articles. And also discuss what aspects make scholar piece, a strong scholar piece. I chose scholar piece that reflects every college student’s struggle. The title is “Financial Stress, Self-Efficiency, and Financial Help-Seeking Behavior of College Students.” Thus, the audiences of this scholar article could be college students, people who are interested in finding out about the behavior, or fellow scholar who is also an expert in the field of studying college student’s behaviors. The purpose of this piece is to inform, educate, and allow readers to be able to identify the factors that contribute to college student’s financial help-seeking behavior. The style of this piece is very formal and informatively written with tone of “We are the experts in this field.” Some of the conventions were the bolded title of each section of the article. This helps the reader to find what they want to read easily, making the paper more effective. Towards the end of the article, it had small assessment section where readers can answer couple questions and find out how much they are stressed out on financial issues. Visual literacies like figures, data, charts, and graphs were also included. And below each f those, authors included clear data analysis of what the data represents. This scholar piece is considered as genre of scholar piece because it has hypothesis/argument of the authors, backed up with previous framework. The argument of this piece was that clients with higher financial self-efficacy may self-identify the need for help and initiate contact, while clients with lower self-efficacy may respond better to advisor-initiated contact. Clear argument backed up with data and analysis made scholar piece, a scholar piece.  

            SCIgen generator generates scientific articles that do not necessarily make sense. It generates what scientific article should look like, providing graphs, charts, and data. The audience of this article can be people who are looking for an amusement. And the purpose of this article follows along, which is to entertain people. The style of this article that’s been generated is in scientific article form, providing graphs and charts even though those do not relate to the topic at all. Compared to scholar article, genre generated from SCIgen has different audience, purpose, and style. However, some of the conventions that this genre had were similar than that of scholar piece. SCIgen article divided each section with bold title to allow readers to find what they want to read easily. It also provided visual literacies; even though those were out of context, it seemed like a scholar piece. But, there was no analysis or explanation about the topic compared to scholar piece, which had clear thesis statement.

            One of the most important point that we might want to include when writing scholar piece is our hypothesis or an argument, generated from previous framework. Scholars write scholar pieces and so these pieces should appeal to the readers that their knowledge/ideas in their field is deep enough to have potential of contributing beneficial effects to the society. Another important feature in scholar piece is self-assured tone. If a scholar piece has strong argument but the tone of the piece is giving the readers sense of “I’m not sure if I am right but I suggest the idea of…” the readers will be confused about what the main argument is or doubt scholar’s knowledge. Data/ figures/ charts/ statistics-visual literacies are also important because those back up the main hypothesis that the scholar is trying to claim as a thesis statement. Strong arguments always have strong backup analysis of data. Strong analysis backs up an argument and increase potential of an argument that can be agreed among the other experts or readers. Therefore, clear argument, tone, and strong analysis are the most important aspect of writing scholar piece.