Andres Martin Tattoos Analysis

With the inclusion of connotations, diction, and formality and the like, Andres Martin also uses comparisons in order help persuade his audience. Comparisons are the act of using something the reader knows in order to help them understand something they don’t. Andres Martin makes the comparison of tattoos to relationships in hopes that it’ll convey to his audience, that unlike the various relationships these teens will go through tattoos “can promise permanence and stability” (para. 9), which he insinuates teen need and are in search of. I believe this comparison is both ineffective and effective, depending on how it is viewed. It can be effective if it is looked at face value, simply for what the words say: something in place of something else or lack thereof. It can become ineffective when it is analyzed, thus justifying that these teens are merely getting tattoos for “attention” or simply to “act out”. His audience, mainly being child psychologists may perceive this to mean that the tattoos are an act of attention and lack of stability and not as the teens’ …show more content…
Evidence works in a number of ways depending on the audience you are writing towards. Evidence is critiqued according to four elements: sufficiency, typicality, accuracy, and relevance. Andres Marti includes two main pieces of evidence which are his cases, and the two cases support the claims he’s made throughout the article. I believe the case he included that has the 13-year-old meets three of the four elements, falling short of the typicality one, simply because it isn’t common that you see a 13-year-old with one tattoo, let alone preparing for a second one. His colleagues may expect that his evidence in this paper isn’t as typical, because back in the time it wasn’t often that you’d see a teen with a tattoo. He is included this case to show them that these are little kids getting tattoos and they should be treated with much more