Rhetorical Analysis of Academic Journal

After reviewing the Top 100 Journals for Electrical Engineering, I was unable to find any physical copies within the UA Library system. Though they all have electronic copies available for reading, there was no chance of getting a picture with the real one, so here's the best I could do.

Now, for this post I'll be reviewing the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits February 2016 Issue, which is Issue 2 of Volume 51.

Authors (Per Article):

• Venumadhav Bhagavatula ; Tong Zhang ; Apsara Ravish Suvarna ; Jacques Christophe Rudell
• Iman Madadi ; Massoud Tohidian ; Koen Cornelissens ; Patrick Vandenameele ; Robert Bogdan Staszewski
• Giuseppe Li Puma ; Christophe Carbonne
• Yan-Jiun Chen ; Kwuang-Han Chang ; Chih-Cheng Hsieh
• Chi-Hang Chan ; Yan Zhu ; Sai-Weng Sin ; Seng-Pan Ben U ; Rui Paulo Martins
• Takao Oshita ; Joseph Shor ; David E. Duarte ; Avner Kornfeld ; George L. Geannopoulos ; Jonathan Douglas ; Nasser Kurd
• Shinwoong Kim ; Seunghwan Hong ; Kapseok Chang ; Hyungsik Ju ; Jaewook Shin ; Byungsub Kim ; Hong-June Park ; Jae-Yoon Sim
• Mina Kim ; Seojin Choi ; Taeho Seong ; Jaehyouk Choi
• Min-Han Hsieh ; Liang-Hsin Chen ; Shen-Iuan Liu ; Charlie Chung-Ping Chen
• Guanghua Shu ; Woo-Seok Choi ; Saurabh Saxena ; Mrunmay Talegaonkar ; Tejasvi Anand ; Ahmed Elkholy ; Amr Elshazly ; Pavan Kumar Hanumolu
• Sagar Ray ; Mona Mostafa Hella
• Jun-Chau Chien ; Ali M. Niknejad
• Walker J. Turner ; Rizwan Bashirullah
• Jong-Kwan Choi ; Jae-Myoung Kim ; Gunpil Hwang ; Jaehyeok Yang ; Min-Gyu Choi ; Hyeon-Min Bae
• Shunta Iguchi ; Hiroshi Fuketa ; Takayasu Sakurai ; Makoto Takamiya
• Dongmin Yoon ; Taekwang Jang ; Dennis Sylvester ; David Blaauw
• Po-Hung Chen ; Chung-Shiang Wu ; Kai-Chun Lin
• Min Tan ; Wing-Hung Ki
• Suyoung Bang ; David Blaauw ; Dennis Sylvester
• Mahmut E. Sinangil ; John W. Poulton ; Matthew R. Fojtik ; Thomas H. Greer III ; Stephen G. Tell ; Andreas J. Gotterba ; Jesse Wang ; Jason Golbus ; Brian Zimmer ; William J. Dally ; C. Thomas Gray

Unfortunately with a list of more than 75 contributing authors, there is no personal information included about any of them. However, at the top of their respective papers, it will list their institution, such as Takao Oshita who is an IEEE Member and published for IEEE itself.

Audience:

The intended audience for this journal is readers who have a deep understanding of the fundamentals of electrical engineering. It is only focused on this audience as all of the articles contain field specific jargon such as in within Oshita's piece where they write "The inverting amplifier contains a pair of the inner cascode pMOS and nMOS devices with fixed dc biasing."

Context:

The IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits releases a new issue every month, and has had regular updates since 1966. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the main professional society for Electrical Engineers, and was founded in 1963.

Message and Purpose:

In the case of Jun-Chau Chien from the University of California at Berkeley, the paper "presents the analysis and design of oscillator-based reactance sensors employing injection locking for high-throughput label-free single-cell analysis using dielectric spectroscopy at microwave frequencies." The format of abstract, introduction, content, data, analysis, and conclusion are followed closely for all articles within the journal.

Within this journal, the purpose is to educate electrical engineering professionals about the most recent advancements in solid-state circuit technology. Though the story of each of its paper within the publication is different, they all have the same theme.