Rhetorical Analysis of Academic Journal

 This blog post concerns the rhetorical analysis of an academic journal.

The levels of enthusiasm radiating from this picture are astounding!

Your image for this blog post should be a photo of you holding the latest issue of the journal in question.  Take a selfie or have someone else snap your picture for the blog post. The title and date of publication for the issue should be clearly visible in the photo. [Note: You may not be able to take the journal out of the library, so try to capture this image without disturbing or disrupting other library patrons].
In the blog post, provide concise but detailed answers to the following questions:

• Who are the authors/speakers published in this specific issue of the academic journal you've selected? How many different authors are published here? What do you know - or can you find out - about these people? How are the authors/speakers portrayed in the journal issue? Cite specific details from the journal issue in your answers. 

Ernest L. Hall is the primary writer in this specific issue of the academic journal "Computer Image Processing and Recognition". The author is extremely humble, which I was able to identify by looking through the "acknowledgements", where he listed a ton of people who helped him along the way, not just directly, but even people who inspired him.

"I am deeply indebted to my students and colleagues whose encouragement, discussions, inspirations, and support have contributed to the preparation of this book."

I thought that was extremely cool.

• Who is the intended audience for this particular journal issue? How can you tell? Are there any secondary audiences included here? Cite specific details from the journal issue in your answers. 

The intended audience is somebody who is willing and able to learn about the introduction to computer image processing and recognition techniques. Secondary audiences might be non-engineers who want to refine their deep understanding of computer imaging in matrix systems.

• What is the context surrounding this particular journal issue? How does this affect the content of the journal? (See the bulleted questions on Student's Guide page 180 for specific questions about context). Cite specific details from the journal issue in your answers. 

One thing that is unavoidable is the time that it was published. No doubt this would have been ground-breaking news in 1979, but technology is changing at an astounding rate as to make at least some of this information not necessarily wrong, but defitely obsolete.

"Interactive and automatic measurements and quality assurance systems will play a central role in this new technology by providing greater design flexibility, consistency, and reliability."

• What is the overall message of the journal issue? How did you decide this? Cite specific details from the journal issue in your answers. 

The overall message of the journal issue is that engineers are going to have to step up to fix data computational limitations in order to solve greater issues in the US/world.

"The science of measurements will be even more important during the 1980's than in the past. With the U.S. productivity increasing at only about 2% per year in 1979, and our leadership position among the industrial nations slipping, the scientific community will be called upon for innovative leadership and ingenuity to improve the productivity situation."

• What purpose is the journal issue trying to achieve? Cite specific details from the journal issue in your answers. 

The purpose of this journal is to give people a brief understanding of computer image processing and recongnition techniques.

"The purpose of this paper is to introduce current image recognition methods for location an object in an image and accurately measuring its position. This fundamental problem, which is called scene matching, has many applications to quality control and automation systems."