Through imagery and authority, Rowan Jacobsen, author of the article “An Ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives”, brings awareness to the problem of overconsumption of plastic. In the text, Rowan Jacobsen goes on a field trip to the North Atlantic Gyre in order to observe first-hand the massive ridge formed by the world’s plastic trash. Firstly, the writer describes many scenes thoroughly in order to give the readers an image of the devastation created by plastic in the ocean. For example, he says “We snorkel through alphabet soup, collecting spoons and toothbrushes and bottle…