22. Six Men Arrested in India After New Bus Rape

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/13/six_men_arrested_in_india_after_new_bus_rape.html

Daniel Politi, author of Slate Magazine wrote on January 13 about the arrest of six men charged for gang rape in India. The first paragraph of the article explained the tragic story of a 29 year old women who was gang raped after being refused to be dropped of at the village she lived in. Being the only passenger left, the victim was taken to an isolated area in the state of Punjab by the bus driver and conductor. Five other men met with them and raped the victim before taking the woman back to the village next morning. Though six of the criminals were arrested, CNN reported that the Indian police was still in search of the seventh criminal. Next, the author quoted what the victim had to tell the reporters about what happened to her. The following two paragraphs related back to two previous gang rape incidents in India where both victims died.

The purpose of the article was to inform about the arrest of six criminals who were charged for raping. The author wrote unbiased and he used a serious and formal tone to announce the arrest as well as to talk about similar past events. The article was well organized and easy to understand because of the author's simple and direct diction, and the use of the victim's own words and reference to CNN news was effective in the way that it made the article more credible. The only factor that seemed to not be effective was the way the article ended. It seemed to have ended abruptly after talking about a past rape incident, and that did not give a proper concluding close to the article.