In today’s day and age, authors strategically utilize different rhetorical strategies to support their viewpoints and draw in their target audience. In the articles, “Is Google Making Students Stupid?” by well renowned journalist and cultural critic Nick Romeo, “Is The Internet Making Us Dumber, Smarter, Or Just Different?” by journalist Luke O’Neil, “Addiction” by Principal Researcher at Microsoft danah boyd, and “Addicted to Distraction” by CEO and founder of The Energy Project Tony Schwartz, the authors share their views on the correlation between technology and teens of the 21st century. All four articles present their target audience with convincing arguments through Rhetorical strategies such as process analysis, exemplification,
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O’Neil provides the reader with a phenomenal example of the rhetorical strategy known as exemplification when he states, “I spent years of my life as a young boy in college trying to find stores that still sold the original “Come On Eileen” 45 with the lyrics. I wanted to know what the lyrics were. I remember my band covering that in college in the ‘90s” (qtd. in O’Neil 25). This personal experience that Gladstone presents during the interview is used to show the reader how back in the day when computers did not exist, people had to physically track down the location of things instead of being able to access it on the internet in five seconds. O’Neil properly utilizes a human asset to access a personal story in order to solidify his argument regarding the impact the internet has on society …show more content…
Boyd provides the reader with an exceptional example of the rhetorical strategy known as narration when she states, “In 1938, the film Reefer Madness started a mass frenzy, depicting marijuana as a “killer weed” turning vulnerable young people into addicts” (5). Boyd provides the reader with these brief explanations on the evolution of drugs from the late 1930s to the 1990s to show the progression of addiction throughout the past decades and how in the 21st century it switched over to a technological addiction. These recounts of events are used to show how back in the day addiction in youth culture was directly tied to drugs, but eventually evolved into addiction to the cyber world. Overall, boyd has done a perfect job of utilizing the rhetorical strategy of narration in order to solidify her position on the use of the term
O’Neil provides the reader with a phenomenal example of the rhetorical strategy known as exemplification when he states, “I spent years of my life as a young boy in college trying to find stores that still sold the original “Come On Eileen” 45 with the lyrics. I wanted to know what the lyrics were. I remember my band covering that in college in the ‘90s” (qtd. in O’Neil 25). This personal experience that Gladstone presents during the interview is used to show the reader how back in the day when computers did not exist, people had to physically track down the location of things instead of being able to access it on the internet in five seconds. O’Neil properly utilizes a human asset to access a personal story in order to solidify his argument regarding the impact the internet has on society …show more content…
Boyd provides the reader with an exceptional example of the rhetorical strategy known as narration when she states, “In 1938, the film Reefer Madness started a mass frenzy, depicting marijuana as a “killer weed” turning vulnerable young people into addicts” (5). Boyd provides the reader with these brief explanations on the evolution of drugs from the late 1930s to the 1990s to show the progression of addiction throughout the past decades and how in the 21st century it switched over to a technological addiction. These recounts of events are used to show how back in the day addiction in youth culture was directly tied to drugs, but eventually evolved into addiction to the cyber world. Overall, boyd has done a perfect job of utilizing the rhetorical strategy of narration in order to solidify her position on the use of the term