1. Genre: argumentation
2. Typical writing device:
Parallelism: similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
1) At the edge of a new century, globalization is a double-edged sword: a powerful vehicle that raises economic growth, spreads new technology and raises living standards in rich and poor countries alike,… (Para. 1)
Three verb phrases are coordinatedly used as predicate of the attributive clause.
2) What we call the market is simply the joining of buyers and sellers, producers and consumers and savers and investors. (Para. 3)
Three noun phrases are coordinatedly used as the object of preposition “of”.
3) Economic history consists largely of the story of the market’s expansion: from farm to town, from region to nation and from nation to nation. (Para. 3)
In this sentence, three prepositional phrases are used together to describe the market’s expansion.
4) Globalization’s other problem is political, cultural and social. (Para. 29)
Three adjectives are coordinated to show the other problems of globalization.

