Informative Article

http://www.bloomp.net/articles/acid_rain.htm

The purpose of this article is to make people aware of the problem of acid rain and how it impacts people and the planet. The audience is anyone who doesn't know about acid rain but there is an indirect audience of everyone because everyone is effected by this. The article mostly uses ethos to show that it is creditable because it focused on scientific information and need to show that people can believe it. This article uses a digital media in the text mode. The style adds to the purpose because it is very scientific and the style is very factual which matches the article very well. This could be adapted into a podcast because it could be read aloud and the information could easily be distributed through an online streaming web site.