Response To David Carr S Articles
Angely Levis
Professor Florian
English 114a
11 September 2013
Response to David Carr’s Articles
By reading the five different topic articles I began to see the writing style of Carr. In all five stories he always referred back to his main point. Although, he may have slightly drifted away with detail from what he started his article with, he always came back to put together what he was saying from the beginning. His style of writing is unique in ways he grabs his reader’s attention and speaks of the issue. The three articles that I felt grabbed my attention the most were “Chasing Armstrong With The Truth”, “This American Life’ Looks at a High School Marooned in Violence”, and “Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It”. In all three he started his articles in such a way that would grab someone’s attention without intentionally giving away what exactly the story is about. He uses an alternative method to correspond his first point to his main point. In “Chasing Armstrong With The Truth”, He begins his article with a statement that intrigues the reader in questioning the media and the outliers (which he states them as) but he goes further into the story and through the development we begin to understand why he is referring to the mainstream media in such way that he did in his thesis. In the article, “This American Life’ Looks at a High School Marooned in Violence”, He begins his article with a rough yet truthful statement about deaths in suburban communities. The reader begins to have an understanding from that point that the writer is going to speak of the importance of safety in schools and in different communities that have faced a more than average attack of deaths. Carr may have started his point and thesis with a dry statement, but it led into the meaning of his article and he referred back to his first point quite often to keep his reader on track. Lastly, In “Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It”, Carr not only began his writing with a
Professor Florian
English 114a
11 September 2013
Response to David Carr’s Articles
By reading the five different topic articles I began to see the writing style of Carr. In all five stories he always referred back to his main point. Although, he may have slightly drifted away with detail from what he started his article with, he always came back to put together what he was saying from the beginning. His style of writing is unique in ways he grabs his reader’s attention and speaks of the issue. The three articles that I felt grabbed my attention the most were “Chasing Armstrong With The Truth”, “This American Life’ Looks at a High School Marooned in Violence”, and “Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It”. In all three he started his articles in such a way that would grab someone’s attention without intentionally giving away what exactly the story is about. He uses an alternative method to correspond his first point to his main point. In “Chasing Armstrong With The Truth”, He begins his article with a statement that intrigues the reader in questioning the media and the outliers (which he states them as) but he goes further into the story and through the development we begin to understand why he is referring to the mainstream media in such way that he did in his thesis. In the article, “This American Life’ Looks at a High School Marooned in Violence”, He begins his article with a rough yet truthful statement about deaths in suburban communities. The reader begins to have an understanding from that point that the writer is going to speak of the importance of safety in schools and in different communities that have faced a more than average attack of deaths. Carr may have started his point and thesis with a dry statement, but it led into the meaning of his article and he referred back to his first point quite often to keep his reader on track. Lastly, In “Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It”, Carr not only began his writing with a