Differences In English Language Debroah Tannen

Introduction
The article under discussion is written by … who is a … and has written book on similar topics such as ….. the author is very well versed in the this field and the primary focus of her research is the use of language in day to day setting and the effect of gender, age and on and so forth. The article takes into account the argument regarding how our classrooms have effect the learning in males and females and why does this difference occur. [author] talks about how different peer groups, debate like structure of the classroom and how different gender groups topic are similar across cultures. Along with logical reasoning she provides with examples of her colleagues and her own graduate class to make her view point clearer. Write
She has refrained from using flamboyant language which makes her article easily understandable. She avoids using flamboyant language for her reader which could have increased the likelihood of them misunderstanding her text .for example Typically, a girl has a best friend with whom she sits and talks, frequently telling secrets This is important because her work is not only for lecturers and educationist but students as well who would use her work to further understand the reasons for the difference in language usage in male and female students however even though the language is simple it does not deviate from the frame work of an academic article and continues to use formal language throughout. For example ritual opposition is antithetical to the way most females learn and like to interact. It is not that females don't fight, but that they don't fight for fun. They don't ritualize opposition Debroah Tannen chose her words carefully. Her sentences are concise and precise and deliver the exact meaning she intends the reader to understand. In this article she discusses the topic in first person “I began to suspect some of the causes of the troubling facts that women who go to single-sex schools …” “This contrasts sharply with the way I teach:…” and uses them again when describing her observation of her class. . uses a formal tone and does not uses any negative
. Her writing style is similar to Gerald Graff who uses easy to understand language for his writing Both are well versed indidviudals in this field however when Debroah Tannen’s work of “How Males and Females students use language differently” is compared to Gerlad’s “Disliking Books at an Early Age the way they explain the different way of learning in males and females and what will make individuals interested in education. In his approach Gerald uses his personal anecdote to how he disliked reading book at an early age simply because it was considered “sissy” but later on, during his college life “huckleberry and Fin” and the critics opposing views caught his attention and developed his interest in the field. Compared this to Debroah Tannen’s article, she uses logos and pathos approaches predominantly. She uses logos and tries to justify her claim through her observation and through other anthropologist and sociologists understanding of why these differences occur. She explains different thinking styles from peer group selection to male student preference for debatable topics. For example she mentions how her colleagues’ student was disappointed when there was no argument on his class presentation. She uses pathos when she describes her own experiment for example “I was overwhelmed by how talkative the female