Stereotypes Of Only Children

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To present their gatherings, each author has a unique writing style including variety of stories and facts that they want to show their audiences when approaching a similar topic. In Mancillas's writing, she paraphrases research that has already been done and recorded and combines the points of many different researches in order to challenge the stereotypes of only children. Mancillas breaks down her writing into columns with a header that discuses the research and perception of birth order, consequences and implication of only-child stereotypes and advantages of only children as well as other sections to serve the purpose as a informative article for parents and adults. Sandler, in her Time Magazine article, uses interviews and stories of people that she has talked to in order to gain her evidence as she uses "I" and " has told me" when she introduces the evidence.

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