Jessica Boyd
Evaluative Summary
English 104
Professor Andre
31 January 2015
Stenger’s (2013) argument in “Social Media Usage Provides Educational Benefits Research Shows,” is definitely geared towards people who partake in social media. The main focus of the article is to argue why the use of social media should not be frowned upon anymore, simply because there can be some significant social and educational benefits from using it. Enabling one to build and establish virtual relationships and share knowledge are the two main benefits of social media listed within the article. I think the reason why Stenger focuses on the benefits of social media is because there are many articles that state how social media can harm one, but not as …show more content…
The experimental data is useful in supporting the claim because it was actual college students stating how in fact social media did indeed benefit them. The statistics on the other hand, are not useful when supporting the claim because they only state the percentage of people that use social media instead of stating how it benefited people. For example, the statistic states, “94 percent used the Internet, 82 percent go online at home, and 77 percent had a profile on a social networking site,” (Stenger, 2013, p. 1) although this is valid information, it does not support the claim that social media is socially or educationally beneficial at all. All in all, the article is engaging, but it lacks evidence when it comes down to supporting the …show more content…
Personally, I agree with both articles’ claims because I partake in social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. I strongly believe that social media can benefit one socially and educationally, because I have use my social media accounts to communicate with friends and classmates; I also use them to keep up with my homework assignments. However, both articles did lack vast amounts of evidence to support their claims. Thus, both articles did very poor job of convincing me of their arguments, so they both were failures. But, article one did convince me of its argument better than article two did because it at least contained useful experimental data, whereas article two had no useful evidence to support its claim. In general, both articles had great claims but unfortunately, neither of them had enough
Evaluative Summary
English 104
Professor Andre
31 January 2015
Stenger’s (2013) argument in “Social Media Usage Provides Educational Benefits Research Shows,” is definitely geared towards people who partake in social media. The main focus of the article is to argue why the use of social media should not be frowned upon anymore, simply because there can be some significant social and educational benefits from using it. Enabling one to build and establish virtual relationships and share knowledge are the two main benefits of social media listed within the article. I think the reason why Stenger focuses on the benefits of social media is because there are many articles that state how social media can harm one, but not as …show more content…
The experimental data is useful in supporting the claim because it was actual college students stating how in fact social media did indeed benefit them. The statistics on the other hand, are not useful when supporting the claim because they only state the percentage of people that use social media instead of stating how it benefited people. For example, the statistic states, “94 percent used the Internet, 82 percent go online at home, and 77 percent had a profile on a social networking site,” (Stenger, 2013, p. 1) although this is valid information, it does not support the claim that social media is socially or educationally beneficial at all. All in all, the article is engaging, but it lacks evidence when it comes down to supporting the …show more content…
Personally, I agree with both articles’ claims because I partake in social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. I strongly believe that social media can benefit one socially and educationally, because I have use my social media accounts to communicate with friends and classmates; I also use them to keep up with my homework assignments. However, both articles did lack vast amounts of evidence to support their claims. Thus, both articles did very poor job of convincing me of their arguments, so they both were failures. But, article one did convince me of its argument better than article two did because it at least contained useful experimental data, whereas article two had no useful evidence to support its claim. In general, both articles had great claims but unfortunately, neither of them had enough