A Critical Analysis That is As Sweet As Sugar
The article, “Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive.” By James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan discusses America’s sugar addiction and how easily it has escalated into a grave issue, giving a solution to this problem near the end. They argue that something must be done about the mass consumption of sugar in order for the country to be guided in the right direction Diligently describing a study that becomes their main support for their claim, these authors use research as their way to elaborate on their argument. This is both a strength in their writing. They also appeal to your emotions, making the reader feel like this issue affects their personal lives. The authors dive deep into …show more content…
This is shown when they use the very credible source Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- a book on the research behind mental disorders- to state when substance disorders occur, comparing the symptoms to an addiction to sugar. I always tend to gravitate over a scientific analysis over a opinionated analysis because there is more logic and concrete detail and the authors never fail to back up their research with convincing references. This allows for the article to flow nicely into the reasoning behind comparing sugar to drugs. They bring this up to be able to properly say that sugar can be dangerous. This is a useful way of providing support for their claim. You also can see this in action when they use MRI tests to explain that the brain is not getting addicted to just sugar and not the fat in our foods. This further assists in the argument that sugar is a big problem in America. These authors use statistics very well, avoiding any sort of authority fallacy by only using sources with a good credentials. This is appealing to me because there is a lot of logic behind the research, making it clear just how much work was put into creating a coherent argument that is not easily torn …show more content…
Many of the articles we have read this year are very wordy and full of extra information that can stray away from the main idea. This happens in an article like “Unhappy Meals”, which is about 40 pages long. The author, Michael Pollan goes into specific detail over each remark, making his article very unorganized and scattered. In “Sugar Season”, there is a clear structure in Dinicolantonio and Lucan’s writing. They consider the experimentation behind their claim and conjure a simplified and logical analysis based on what the results are. The lack of disorder in their writing makes their argument comprehensible, and inherently more
The article, “Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive.” By James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan discusses America’s sugar addiction and how easily it has escalated into a grave issue, giving a solution to this problem near the end. They argue that something must be done about the mass consumption of sugar in order for the country to be guided in the right direction Diligently describing a study that becomes their main support for their claim, these authors use research as their way to elaborate on their argument. This is both a strength in their writing. They also appeal to your emotions, making the reader feel like this issue affects their personal lives. The authors dive deep into …show more content…
This is shown when they use the very credible source Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- a book on the research behind mental disorders- to state when substance disorders occur, comparing the symptoms to an addiction to sugar. I always tend to gravitate over a scientific analysis over a opinionated analysis because there is more logic and concrete detail and the authors never fail to back up their research with convincing references. This allows for the article to flow nicely into the reasoning behind comparing sugar to drugs. They bring this up to be able to properly say that sugar can be dangerous. This is a useful way of providing support for their claim. You also can see this in action when they use MRI tests to explain that the brain is not getting addicted to just sugar and not the fat in our foods. This further assists in the argument that sugar is a big problem in America. These authors use statistics very well, avoiding any sort of authority fallacy by only using sources with a good credentials. This is appealing to me because there is a lot of logic behind the research, making it clear just how much work was put into creating a coherent argument that is not easily torn …show more content…
Many of the articles we have read this year are very wordy and full of extra information that can stray away from the main idea. This happens in an article like “Unhappy Meals”, which is about 40 pages long. The author, Michael Pollan goes into specific detail over each remark, making his article very unorganized and scattered. In “Sugar Season”, there is a clear structure in Dinicolantonio and Lucan’s writing. They consider the experimentation behind their claim and conjure a simplified and logical analysis based on what the results are. The lack of disorder in their writing makes their argument comprehensible, and inherently more