Hess’s article was one of the first readings we closely analyzed at the beginning of the semester. This reading gave me a good glimpse of what was going to be expected while doing research in this class when annotating the text. Hess argued the importance of end of life care is and how crucial it is for people to start paying more attention to it. In class, we figured out why the author was writing this text and what her exigence was. The author was writing this paper as a dissertation to her capstone so she has a reason to argue about end of life care. Her audience in mainly intended for policy makers, end of life patients/families, and anyone who is interested in knowing about topics like this. She uses a unique way of capturing the reader’s attention by incorporating a loved one in her dissertation.