A Rhetorical Analysis Of 'The New Literacy' By Clive Thompson
Rhetorical analysis of The New Literacy BY Clive Thompson
The Clive Thompson article is aimed at showing the development of new literacy where students are learning how to write for a specific audience and making a good essay. The new literacy, according to Thompson, has been facilitated by the internet-enabled social networking such as Facebook and Twitter as they have increased the number of writings modern-day students make. Also, these kinds of writings have enabled the students to understand how writings should be made: with a specific audience in mind. To pass the message of the development of a new literacy, Thompson uses the three types of rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos and pathos to persuade his audience into supporting his assertions.
Logos:
Firstly, Thompson appeals to logic to show how the chatting and texting made over the internet will lead to good writings by students. For example, he argues that, “the fact that students today always write for an audience gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writings”. The writer deduces that just as students …show more content…
For example, Thompson cites Lunsford findings as, “of all writings that the Stanford students did, stunning 38 percent of it took place outside the classroom.” Lunsford is a credible person as she is a professing of writing and rhetoric, and this shows that the evidence that Thompson uses to support his arguments are reliable as they come from a credible person. Thompson also writes says “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and power point have replaced carefully crafted essay, and texting has dehydrated language into “bleak, bald, sad shorthand.” This is the position held by those who oppose the internet as a source of the new literacy and instead see it as the cause of the problem experienced by students when
The Clive Thompson article is aimed at showing the development of new literacy where students are learning how to write for a specific audience and making a good essay. The new literacy, according to Thompson, has been facilitated by the internet-enabled social networking such as Facebook and Twitter as they have increased the number of writings modern-day students make. Also, these kinds of writings have enabled the students to understand how writings should be made: with a specific audience in mind. To pass the message of the development of a new literacy, Thompson uses the three types of rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos and pathos to persuade his audience into supporting his assertions.
Logos:
Firstly, Thompson appeals to logic to show how the chatting and texting made over the internet will lead to good writings by students. For example, he argues that, “the fact that students today always write for an audience gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writings”. The writer deduces that just as students …show more content…
For example, Thompson cites Lunsford findings as, “of all writings that the Stanford students did, stunning 38 percent of it took place outside the classroom.” Lunsford is a credible person as she is a professing of writing and rhetoric, and this shows that the evidence that Thompson uses to support his arguments are reliable as they come from a credible person. Thompson also writes says “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and power point have replaced carefully crafted essay, and texting has dehydrated language into “bleak, bald, sad shorthand.” This is the position held by those who oppose the internet as a source of the new literacy and instead see it as the cause of the problem experienced by students when