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S: The writer is speaking from an annoyed Facebook user's perspective. She makes sure to distance herself from the politically correct (or incorrect) viewpoints and tells those who do to go ahead and stop reading if they disagree. O: Larger Occasion: Accumulated anger towards her Facebook friends. Immediate Occasion: Not clear but someone probably made her mad with a post. A: The article is explicitly for those who recognized a change in Facebook's original postings and are angered by the selfishness that it now portrays. P: Daum writes this article solely to rant. The article has no educational value and she is forcing her opinion upon us. S: Facebook users are increasingly using the social media site to brag about their life and lifestyle. TONE: Daum expresses a choleric and accusatory tone. She shuts out some readers, lacks an educational point, and calls out a certain group of people. |
This article represents Daum well because it exemplifies how emotional her pieces were. This article does lack the educational value that usually is included in her pieces. Daum's work is reliant on her use of pathos to get her point across. She is good about acknowledging both sides of the arguments, whether they are logos, pathos or ethos based, but Daum rarely ever uses any other form of analysis than pathos. Daum does tend to point out certain groups of people in her work; in this article, she chose to bash them but in other articles she has chosen to inspire people. This revels that even though the article is constructed for a general audience, she has a clear point to be made to specific people. Though not used here, Meghan typically chooses to write based on a broad opinion but she always focuses her immediate occasion on something happening in the news or social media. She attracts the readers with reference to popular culture and writes about an idea highlighted in the actor or singer's actions. Meghan assumes the unpopular or hidden opinion of the topic. She discusses well known sides and writes about it from a perspective aside from the general two. She often accepts the changing times but is critical about fundamental principles she believes in. While I lenjoyed reading how Daum constructs her arguments, I think her points do not get across well because of the limited rhetorical strategies used.
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