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Thesis : Conventions and purpose of the genre can be tricky if you don't understand them but
when you look at the softball homepages you will see there are differences between each one.
Main : There are different conventions on every softball homepage.
How : It explains the different things found within a softball homepage.
2.
Main : Softball pages have many small differences due to the history of different teams and
seasons.
How : The information found on softball homepages differ ranging from many reasons to
another.
3.
Main : Penn State Abington writes positive things about what happens during some games on
their softball homepage.
How : The conventions found on college softball pages are distinct to that school and what
happened during their season.
4.
Main : Penn State Abingtons page is biased compared to the NCAA page
How: NCAA tells the true story of the game because they have nothing to hide about a team.
Abington doesn't want to trash their own team so they put good parts of the game in their
articles even though they lost.
5.
Main: people believe that what they want to believe so it makes conventions tricky
How: Hero sports post their facts off of votes they get from people. So people dont actually
know the truth
6.
Main: First impressions are a big deal within every genre.
How: if the article doesn't look interesting people won't read it so sometimes they put things that
aren't true to catch a readers attention.
7.
Main: rhetorical features can be a tricky also not just conventions.
How: websites can target different groups of people. Also they can use different tones while
doing it.
Last paragraph.
Main: there is more to softball homepages then just stats and rosters if you look closely at them.
How: all the examples above support my argument.