September 18, 2011
Clarifying Your Purpose and Audience- my audience will be adults with younger children, and teens. I hope to have my audience consider my arguement seriously and agree that mass media effects the younger generations. I will use research to prove to my readers that I am informed, knowledgable, and fair.
Presenting the Issue- I will present the issue in a personal context. Yes, i will use examples from real life. Throughout the paper I will include research, and quoatations from various citations that I find.
Making Your Argument and Counterargument- I will arrange my paper so that each idea/ issue has its own paragraph. I will sequence them from what I believe is the largest problem with mass media to the smallest negative influence. By shoing statistics it will show part of the counterargument. I will quote research and stress benefits and losses to the impact that media has on youngr generations.
The Ending- I will restate my thesis at the end of the paper. I could end my paper by looking to the future and suggesting what the impact of mass media could have on the younger generations.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Morgan: I like your thinking about the audience for the paper, but on essay #2, I assigned a specific audience–so that you won’t have to worry about picking your own. Your audience is the BGSU student body, so really it is your peers. See the assignment sheet for more details. I like how you are already thinking about how you will use sources and statistics to make your argument. Good work!