ENG2601 Assignment 2 2025 Due 9 June 2025

EN2601
Assignment 2
Due date: 09 June 2025
Compulsory: Yes

Read the article below and answer the questions that follow.
The big lie about speed limits in South Africa
Lower speed limits do not translate into reduced road fatalities despite what authorities
would have you believe. This is the view of Rob Handfield-Jones, road safety expert
and managing director of advanced driver training company Driving.co.za

The question/instructions and grading criteria
In an essay of 1000 to 1200 words, discuss how the writer of the article above
manipulates the relationships between genre, register, context and meaning to
construct a persuasive or argumentative article. In your response, consider the
application by the author of the article of any or all of the following
argumentation/persuasive techniques as anchors of the overall argument and of
individual supporting arguments: emotive language, repetition, rhetorical questions,
generalisation, quoting experts, specialist vocabulary, case study, anecdote, hyperbole
and euphemism.