Binge Drinking In College

The two articles “Taking Up Binge Drinking in College: The Influences of Person, Social Group, and Environment” by Elissa R. Weitzman, Toben F. Nelson, and Henry Wechsler, and “Press Release from the Harvard School of Public Health” by Henry Wechsler and Elissa Weitzman, the audience for the two articles is researcher, professors, and college administrators and the purpose of the research studies is to have freshman college students not to drink like they do because it could kill them or get them hurt in many different ways. The purpose of the abstract is to identify person, social group, and environmental factors associated with uptake of binge drinking among a national sample of college students. The important information that this article tells the audience is that college students don’t need to drink as much and it also gives the audience more information on how people use and abuse alcohol among college students. A news article doesn’t an abstract because the abstract is apart of the summary, and not apart of a text. …show more content…
The audience that is being addressed in the journal article is researchers, professors, and college administrators. I know because it is more informative and it has stats and the results they found for everything. The background information that the author provides is presentation of data and specialized publication, it is important because people really want to know this stuff. The preliminary thesis is to identify individual, social, and environmental factors associated with acquisition of binge drinking among a national sample of older adolescents who recently entered college from high school (Page