A Rhetorical Analysis Of Brown's Article By Brown

The article by Brown is about the very important electronic device, our ‘smart phones’ that deliberately keeps us pre-occupied though out the day, at times when need it the most for easing our works, checking news, researching and other times when we are bored, something to keep our minds busy with. Smart phones are very useful devices and in some cases it’s a requirement to have it for most of us. Brown throughout his writing tries to convey his point that the frequent use of smart phones has its perks and that its obsession is not harmful, in fact it is a way we connect ourselves with the rest of the world. In the next few paragraphs it will be discussed how effectively Brown has managed to prove his argument in the article. Brown (2012) starts his article by narrating about his personal life hurdles “My wife can’t stand it when I read the news on my phone at the breakfast table, an annoyance I’m certain she wouldn’t suffer were I reading the same article on newsprint. She gets irritated with me, and then I catch her doing the same thing a day later, and I make too big a deal about it. It’s time we gave each other a break.” (para #1) This anecdotal piece of evidence may or may not relate to
Another flaw is that he stated that smart phone dependency is a global epidemic but did not mention any global survey rather focused mainly on US surveys which makes it a North-American epidemic not global actually. Brown showed his readers this conflict of emotions regarding how he feels about this constant use of smart phones at certain places, which makes his stance unclear at times. Brown also provides solutions on how smart phones can be used effectively at the last two