Writing Assignment 2: Close Reading Essay
I will be looking at the article, “YouTube pranking across cultures”, by Renee Hobbs and Silke Grafe. After reading this article on online pranks, readers are able to understand the structure of articles. Thus helping the readers get an understanding of how prank videos have evolved over the years in our culture, in a good way and bad way. This is done by providing readers with good arguments, evidence, methodology and conclusions. With a good structure in articles it can help become more purposeful for audiences.
Arguments are very important in any sort of article trying to prove a certain message. Without good arguments, it makes the piece of writing useless to read. There were a few good arguments …show more content…
I liked how the article had its own introduction at the start, reeling in the readers. The authors give the readers a little history of the culture of pranking. As stated in the introduction, “Humans have been playing pranks on each other since prehistoric times, when we first learned how to manipulate social power through laughter at the expense of others” (Hobbs, R, 2015). This helps the reader get a good idea of what the article will be talking about. The authors have the article in the order of how online pranking has changed over the years in a good way and bad way. The authors also give research examples in the middle of online prank videos that have affected the victims, “To identify a sample of videos, we searched under the phrase “maze game” and “erschrocken maze game” on YouTube (www.youtube.com) between 5 April — 25 April 2010” (Hobbs, R, 2015). There always need to be research done by authors in order to back up their statements that are being made. Having to much opinion in articles defeats the purpose of it. To finish off any article there has to always be a conclusion to summarize the main idea of the article. This gives the reader an idea of what they should have understood from thee
I will be looking at the article, “YouTube pranking across cultures”, by Renee Hobbs and Silke Grafe. After reading this article on online pranks, readers are able to understand the structure of articles. Thus helping the readers get an understanding of how prank videos have evolved over the years in our culture, in a good way and bad way. This is done by providing readers with good arguments, evidence, methodology and conclusions. With a good structure in articles it can help become more purposeful for audiences.
Arguments are very important in any sort of article trying to prove a certain message. Without good arguments, it makes the piece of writing useless to read. There were a few good arguments …show more content…
I liked how the article had its own introduction at the start, reeling in the readers. The authors give the readers a little history of the culture of pranking. As stated in the introduction, “Humans have been playing pranks on each other since prehistoric times, when we first learned how to manipulate social power through laughter at the expense of others” (Hobbs, R, 2015). This helps the reader get a good idea of what the article will be talking about. The authors have the article in the order of how online pranking has changed over the years in a good way and bad way. The authors also give research examples in the middle of online prank videos that have affected the victims, “To identify a sample of videos, we searched under the phrase “maze game” and “erschrocken maze game” on YouTube (www.youtube.com) between 5 April — 25 April 2010” (Hobbs, R, 2015). There always need to be research done by authors in order to back up their statements that are being made. Having to much opinion in articles defeats the purpose of it. To finish off any article there has to always be a conclusion to summarize the main idea of the article. This gives the reader an idea of what they should have understood from thee