Returning from the informative review paper is the article “ROBOTIC LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY: A COMPARISON OF THE da VINCI AND ZEUS SYSTEMS” written by Gyung Tak Sung and Inderbir S. Gill in 2001. The reason why I picked this article over the one was that it dealt with the world of surgery and how two telemanipulators have made their impact on the field of computer-assisted surgery. Unlike the other article from the informative review, this article was the better choice as it was more recent, but it also was better to provide the audience with more positive information about the field of computer-assisted surgery. This field is one that is in debate more nowadays; some disapproving of the use of it believing further advancements should be made in it, and on the other side of the argument many say that the benefits of microsurgeries outweigh the negatives. My view on the debate completely being for the use of telemanipulators, the reason for this is clear when reading the article. From the results of the Laparoscopic nephrectomy and pyeloplasty procedures having no complications during the tests and only and having an average of 1.33 complications from the 14-adrenalectomy tested. The article concluding that both systems were both effective at performing the producers and were overall quick for the user to get used to. With that information being known now we can begin our rhetorical analysis; starting with a quick review of the author and audience then being followed by the audience, tone, and purpose, Genre and Medium, and finally being ended with a review of the articles Stance and language.

Beginning our rhetorical analysis of “ROBOTIC LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY: A COMPARISON OF THE da VINCI AND ZEUS SYSTEMS” will be by looking into who was the author. The first author is Gyung Tak Sung, renown already for his other articles that included a wide variety of research. From our topic of choice of computer-assisted surgery to even research on the use of tadalafil for erectile dysfunction. The second author is Inderbir S. Gill from the university of southern California. But unlike Sung, the article that Gill contributed to was almost all involving robotic laparoscopy, which is a form of surgery that the da Vinci and the Zeus system is used for. Moving along the next analysis of the article will be the audience and who the article is engaging those interested in the field of computer-assisted surgeries or those who are already in the field and desired more research. More specifically tackling two well-known telemanipulators by comparing them for the audience. These two telemanipulators exposed to the audience were Zeus and da Vince system through which the audience learned all about their specs, the types of procedures the system excel at, and even any complications that might arise.

Next up to be analyzed was the tone of the article. And the tone held throughout the whole article was very formal and informative as it always is with these types of articles. However, with such a tone of delivering the information came the biggest flaw in the article. This flaw was that the article assumed that you already knew a lot of background information about the topic; assuming that you already what the procedures were for, even assuming that you know how to read the data chart. And while the article is not as hard to interpret as other articles in this field you still had to know some background knowledge in order to understand the article’s conclusion as well as the data chart. Nevertheless, the purpose of the article was still to get people and others in the field to see how beneficial and low risk the use of either the Zeus system or the da Vinci system is, providing data to reinforce the purpose of the article.

Moving along is what was the genre of this article? And giving a quick glance at the article you can tell that it’s a scientific article with analysis and comparison of the two telemanipulators. The reasons for this genre being clear as an article about computer-assisted surgery wouldn’t be very well delivered if it was in the “Chart or Diagram with Explanation and Analysis” genre. As for the medium, the genre was one that benefitted the article when delivering its purpose; the medium is an online article from a book.

Finally, was the language and as mentioned in module 1 lecture the language is closely tied to the tone of the article which will tell you that the language was very formal. The formal language making it appealing for those already used to reading these types of scientific articles. As for my stance on the article, it will continue being for the of these systems and supporting further research on any type of CAS. And this is because of what they’re being implemented for, that use to innovate the surgery field for the better good, a field that I am passionate about.

All in all the article was a great read as analyzing it makes you appreciate how the articles had to be organized for it to deliver that information to the audience, as just raw information and data wouldn’t be appealing for many who are interested in learning about the computer-assisted surgery. But not only did the article deliver the information and data very well but also compared two very well-known and used telemanipulators.

Sung, Gyung Tak, and Inderbir S Gill. “Robotic Laparoscopic Surgery: a Comparison of the Da Vinci and Zeus Systems.” Urology, Elsevier, 8 Dec. 2001, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0090429501014236.

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