JOURNAL NUMBER 2

Hookups starve the soul – Laura Vanderkam 1. Vanderkam makes logos by making several statistical claims for example, “Author David Brooks used the phrase “organization kid” in april’s atlantic Monthly.. “ or “according to a study being released today by the Institute on American Values..”
Pathos – Vanderkam makes an appeal to the audience by using phrases like “as a new college graduate I can attest to this”. She also appeal to the audience by keeping the tone in the essay very personal.
Ethos – I don’t think the author provides balanced information at all, she only provides a side of the story that hook ups are awful, and young adults no longer want to date because of parents.
2. I think the speaker comes off as knowledgeable because they have experienced the things they speak of. Like “The scene my college dorm basement…. She left last night’s party with a boy neither of us had seen before” she lets the audience know that she has experienced promiscuous hookups within her own group of friends
3. I feel like the intention is to educate a little about what’s going on with young adults today, but also; to scold parents for keeping their kids busy with activities all through childhood
4. At first I thought the audience may be young adults in college, but after reading the essay times I think the audience is people older than my generation to educate about not over parenting their kids, and letting them live a little.
5. The tone in the essay is very relaxed. I feel the writer does this to make it easy to persuade and relate to.
6. However the author is effective in their rhetorical appeals. She uses a lot of question marks. “what about Scarlett O’Hara’s passion or Juliet’s”

journal 1

My person writing style is very personal. I do the best writing when it’s a paper where I can express my views and ideas in the 1st person. I usually really struggle to write a research paper because I have to keep everything so third person, and make sure not to take anyone else’s words.
When I first sit down to write a paper, I don’t really have a certain way that I plan my thoughts or what I’m going to write about. All those spider webs, and oddly shaped planning techniques that we learned in grade school never really worked for me. I really just liked to free write and see if I like what I end up with. After I am done writing, I like to read over my work several times. Then I usually decided if I’m going to add to certain paragraphs or remove some things that I find unimportant. Then I rewrite until I’m happy with the final product. Sometimes I’ll rewrite something 3 times just to be one hundred percent happy when I’m done. Then I turn in my paper, cross my fingers, and pray for a semi decent grade.