This newsletter, published in the Local Sports Club News at the beginning of the new season, is written by a coach, who points out the bad behavior of some spectators in the previous season and urges the readers who read the newsletter that they should be good parents to teach their children good sportsmanship. The article begins with an example of a father yelling at his 8yr old daughter for her missing the goal to win the game. When telling the example, repetition of ‘she didn’t care…’ for three times plus ‘she cared very much that…’has been used to raise the readers’ attention to such a rude behavior towards a young girl, meanwhile it raises the readers’ strong resentment to such rude parents. The coach uses a metaphor to start the following paragraph, in which he describes those unwelcomed parents as toxic as to poison the club. This further emphasizes that the coach has been very angry towards some parents’ bad behavior so he contends that bad parents will cause bad impact on the club. Then, with the raise of a question ‘what sort of parent are you?’, he makes the readers think all over themselves what kind of parents they are or they should be, bad or good.
The coach writes in very specific language in his first two main points to outline the idea that the most important goal in kids’ sport is the promotion of good sportsmanship therefore both coaches and parents should be reasonable during the game instead of being mad on merely caring about winning. On the one hand, he explains that what kind of behavior is good sportsmanship, with detailed examples and clear instructions, so that the readers gets his point easily and know exactly what to do. What is wrong and what is right. On the other hand, by quoting last year’s example, he highlights that if those bad behavior in the field continue, the sporty Saturdays will be ruined with volunteers, good parents and coaches refusing to come. This definitely is not the result the all want to see therefore it...