Tone Analysis In Schools

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After reading text A, and text B I noticed the tone in both of them were the same in some ways and different in others. In text A, the tone was all about how much a sixth grade student hated all the ads that had been up all around the school. Then in text B, the tone was about how the sixth grade teacher saw the bad things that the student saw, but also saw some good things about the ads in school. The tone of text A not only strengthens the argument, it also weakens it. One of the main strengths is, he back up the reason it is not good to have ads in school with examples. But a weakness is that he didn’t stay in order, he was just listing things he didn’t like about the ads. Some of the strengths and weaknesses in text

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