As technology continues to evolve in an accelerating fashion, humans have placed an intense focus on the future of our race. This has come in the forms of things like genetic mutation, self-driving cars, and forming a settlement on Mars. But the increase in technology has come with a decrease in quality human interaction, which is demonstrated by tendencies to find entertainment through screens rather than in another human being. The study of human interaction is a field that affects every person on this planet, and yet so many people have turned a blind eye to the distance that emerging technologies are forcing in between each other. In order to bring about true social realization and change, writers in this field need to focus on attracting
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In her article “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” Victoria Clayton discusses the “protected tradition” to use overly complex language in academic papers. She addresses that the purpose of this rhetoric is to flaunt the author’s intelligence in order to impress the public, their peers, or academic journals. But she also cites research performed by Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University that concludes the use of “simple words over needlessly complex ones can actually make authors appear more intelligent” (Clayton). She concludes that using simpler language would “mean more people, including colleagues, would read their work” (Clayton). As discussed earlier, the larger an author’s audience base, the larger the impact they can have on the world and the more funding they can use to look into other issues that affect all human beings. But there are further measures that can simplify the information even more so there is a greater impact on the …show more content…
In their article “Social selection and peer influence in an online social network,” Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman create a detached and impassive voice in their discussion of their “assessment of [the] process” (Lewis, Gonzalez, Kaufman, 71) that they performed during the study and how certain aspects of the study were “particularly conducive to the diffusion of information.” Ms. Clayton would agree that the vocabulary used may be difficult to understand and should be simplified, but it should also try to balance the extreme use of logos with some pathos. Eliciting an emotional response is a powerful tool in persuasion and could go a long way when supported with the logos that currently dominates pieces written in this field. It would parallel the emotions that the reader’s relationships bring them and further enforce the relevancy of these writings to their own lives. The only problem with an incredibly passionate reader would be if the article they were passionate about is incorrect or
In her article “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” Victoria Clayton discusses the “protected tradition” to use overly complex language in academic papers. She addresses that the purpose of this rhetoric is to flaunt the author’s intelligence in order to impress the public, their peers, or academic journals. But she also cites research performed by Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University that concludes the use of “simple words over needlessly complex ones can actually make authors appear more intelligent” (Clayton). She concludes that using simpler language would “mean more people, including colleagues, would read their work” (Clayton). As discussed earlier, the larger an author’s audience base, the larger the impact they can have on the world and the more funding they can use to look into other issues that affect all human beings. But there are further measures that can simplify the information even more so there is a greater impact on the …show more content…
In their article “Social selection and peer influence in an online social network,” Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman create a detached and impassive voice in their discussion of their “assessment of [the] process” (Lewis, Gonzalez, Kaufman, 71) that they performed during the study and how certain aspects of the study were “particularly conducive to the diffusion of information.” Ms. Clayton would agree that the vocabulary used may be difficult to understand and should be simplified, but it should also try to balance the extreme use of logos with some pathos. Eliciting an emotional response is a powerful tool in persuasion and could go a long way when supported with the logos that currently dominates pieces written in this field. It would parallel the emotions that the reader’s relationships bring them and further enforce the relevancy of these writings to their own lives. The only problem with an incredibly passionate reader would be if the article they were passionate about is incorrect or