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Sunzida Faiz
Professor Coy
English 125: Section DC1
November 30, 2018
Genre Analysis: Pharmaceutical Science

1. The first article is “Case Study of Drug Addict” by Rabia Karim and it’s an instrumental

case study, the author uses expository writing. The second article is “The High Cost of

Prescription Drugs in the United States” by Aaron Kesselheim and the author uses

expository writing style.

2. In Karim’s article, she studied a single male client who is thirty years old and his initials,

W.R., are given in the article. In this case study, W.R. had a bad childhood which led to

him falling in with the wrong crowd and becoming a drug addict. He developed a craving

for drugs, self-dislike, worthlessness and passivity. The main goal of this case study was

to get W.R. to communicate with his therapists, get rid of his craving for drugs and

increase his confidence in himself. The main purpose of Kesselheim’s article is medicine

management, and the cost of prescription drugs are increasing which can have positive

and negative effects on everyone and especially on our economy.

3. Karim’s intended audience are people who are interested in professions related to

medicine, health and psychology. Kesselheim’s intended audience are professionals in

the pharmaceutical and pharmacoeconomics industry.

4. Karim’s case study is an informative article because it discusses mental health issues and

how a person’s environment can lead to them becoming an addict. Her case study studies

the behavior of W.R. before and after therapy sessions and after he uses the medications

provided to him to cope with depression and addiction. In every stage of this study the
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readers are informed of the positive and negative changes in W.R.’s health physically and

mentally. Her focus was to learn the relationship between these therapeutic sessions and

W.R. and we are informed about every steps she took to do so. Kesselheim’s article is a

persuasive piece because he gathered facts about pharmacoeconomics and how much the

United States spends on each person for prescribed drugs and he compares that cost to the

cost of other countries. He suggests that the US market should make policies that’ll

contain or reduce the cost of prescribe drugs because otherwise many people won’t be

able to have access to live saving drugs. He tries to persuade the readers that if policies

aren’t made then the drugs we need regularly won’t be available to us and we will all face

the consequences of that.

5. These articles are credible because Karim’s article was published in a scholarly

peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry. Kesselheim’s

article was published by The Journal of the American Medical Association, which is a

peer-reviewed medical journal and they publish original research done by professionals.

6. Karim used primary evidence in her research because everytime W.R. was treated Karim

received recordings of changes that occured in his body and she used charts and table in

her research to prove how his mental and physical health improved. Kesselheim used

statistical and secondary evidence to justify his claims. He used statistics to show how

much the U.S. spends on each person for prescription drugs every year and to discuss the

price of other types of drugs. The author also uses other articles that support his thesis of

why we should have strict policies regarding the cost of drugs.

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7. Karim’s article goes in order because she presents her problem, information about the

subject of the case, background information on the problems, charts and tables that helps

us understand, compare and contrast the results from the beginning to the end and she

analyzes the results at the end. Kesselheim’s article uses sub categories to define his

problem, give evidence, background information, his findings on that topic and a

conclusion.

8. Both articles use APA citation style.

9. Performing the genre analysis of each article helped me understand the writing in the

pharmaceutical science major by helping me understand that the pharmaceutical industry

and case studies are much more complicated than they seem. Pharmaceutical industry is

not just about medicine and the human body but it’s also about economics. You have to

know how to sell medicine but also keep the people happy at the same time with pricing

and be a diplomatic person to be successful in the pharmaceutical industry. You have to

be really good at analyzing people and their situations. You have to be good at research

to perform case studies.

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Works Cited

Karim , Rabia. “Case Study of Drug Addict.” ​Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry,​

vol. 9, no. 1, 2018. DOI:10.15406/jpcpy.2018.09.00504.

Kesselheim, Aaron. “The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in the United States.” ​The Journal of

the American Medical Association​, vol. 316, no. 8, 2016. DOI:10.1001/jama.2016.11237.