Argumentation
There are two types of argumentation that a sender might choose to use to convey a point of view/an argument and to persuade readers: open and closed. Open argumentation means that the sender presents their argument in a clear and direct manner. Closed argumentation means the sender lets readers infer their arguments from examples and evidence.
Esther Addley and Rory McCarthy have structured their article using mostly closed argumentation. They present the case (example) of Mohammed Ayaz, a Pakistani men who died trying to reach England by sneaking into an aeroplane undercarriage, to illustrate how poverty and systemic factors push people from third-world countries to immigrate illegally: “It is a story of breath taking courage fired by a fi...