Media Violence - Formal Tone

Media Violence – Formal Tone

This article has discussed the ways that media violence has seeped into today’s society. After reading the persuasive piece I’ve learned how a formal piece is suppose to be written. The rhetorical devices, style, structure, etc have all been used to the full extent in this piece. The involvement of statistics in the argument has made the argument quite effective; although I didn’t find this piece as effective as the informal piece by Henry Jenkins it still got its point through to readers. This piece points out that not everyone who is exposed to media violence is likely to react upon it, but it does clearly state in which ways it can effect teens and children based on their age.

However, I wasn’t satisfied in this piece as the other three it was well written as in facts, but didn’t flow as the other pieces did. I found that some points were scattered and the author could have done a better job of making the paragraphs flow. E.g. “As early as 1958 investigations were being conducted of the effects of television on children.” I wasn’t satisfied with this introductory sentence to the paragraph because each introductory sentence is supposed to interest readers; instead it had the opposite impact on me. As begin a formal piece it could have been written better and should be able to keep the reader entertained. Several points in this piece had gotten me the feeling of an informal piece and wasn’t quite effective in terms of argument as the informal piece by Henry Jenkins.

Overall I found this piece as a joke, from beginning to end it was inconsistent in flow and gave the reader hard time finding the main point of the piece. I think this was given to us on purpose to criticize because it wasn’t effective at all.