"Worrying Less About Teens, Texting, and Social Media" By: Tara Parker-Pope

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     In the article "Worrying Less About Teens, Texting, and Social Media" by Tara Parker-Pope, address how many parents get stressed over how much time their children are spending on social networks and texting. Parker-Pope believes that parents should worry less and stop feeding into all the recent studies. According to Dr. Michael Rich, a pediatrician and the director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, "much social media research has been on what people call the danger paradigm.” In other words, a lot of the research that has been printed, proving that social media and texting are harming our teens, has been found to be just to scare parents and have not been found to useless.

    Parker-Pope effectively uses logos and ethos to prove her argument. For instance, she makes reference to Dr. Rich and Dr.Klass, both which are pediatricians. Also Parker-Pope takes what the doctors have said, then forms her own opinion as to regards the topic. Also on the website that the article is found, there is a small insert about the author. The insert adds to her creditability because it states that she takes what different doctors have said to improve your health, then produces her own opinion to benefit the readers best.

   As a teen that does use social media daily, I believe that the risk that the doctors have found, are not always to be true. On the other hand, I do believe that too much of anything can be bad for anyone, whether it be food, media, or reading books. Social media is a wonderful advancement in technology and I think when it is used correctly and in moderation, it could benefit teenagers. Many adults look down upon teenagers who use social media daily or all the time. Is social media not used much more than adults? Do not adults loose jobs over their social networking pages? Are they not as much at risk as teenagers?

"How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post" By Chris Clarke

   In his sardonic essay, "How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post," Chris Clarke analyzes how some authors write blogs. Clarke is able to do this by stating what each sentence of the blog the author wants it to do for the reader. The sardonic tone used throughout the essay shows just how ridiculous Clarke believes some blogs can be. 


   In this essay, Clarke uses the anaphora of "This sentence." The repetition of "This sentence" provides a step-to-step guide of how the blogger proceeds to write a absurd blog.  As a reader, you are able to see what each sentence is supposed to do for the audience. For example, in the second sentence of  paragraph 1, he says "This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous," with the use of condescending humor, he points out how the second sentence of the blog is supposed to support the first sentence, however the blogger usually fails in attempt. 


   I am personally new at blogs and have never read a blog before. However, I have read many essays that have sounded just as Clarke explains blogs. Many blogs could have the tendency of sounding pointless. Other blogs could use non sequitur by coming to a conclusion that had absolutely nothing to do with the facts presented.