GOOD GIRLS GONE BAD
Girls just want to have fun; but often they don't think about the consequences. Rebecca Martin's feature article "Girls Gone bad" utilises specific techniques in order to persuade the reader to share her point of view. The issue of modern teenage girls losing respect and misbehaving is shown through the conventions of anecdotes and omission of detail. The reader is made to feel that parents must regain control over there teenage daughters, before society is damaged.
Anecdotes play a pivotal role in immersing the reader into the issue by using personal stories and experiences. Martin has successfully used this convention to provide indisputable evidence while bring the issue closer to the reader's own perspective. The following extract is an example of an anecdote in the text, 'I got there at 11 to find to find police everywhere and smashed bottles. I almost died'. This anecdote is from a stressed parent who found her daughter stumbling away from a party gone wrong. It presents evidence to support the reader's point of view while using a personal story to immerse the reader in the story. Martin has successfully used anecdotes in her feature article to persuade the audience that the morals of young girls are changing.
What you don't know won't hurt you. The author has used the technique of Omission of Detail to ensure the reader understands the problem with teenage girls of the Twenty-First Century. Author's often don't include information that will go against their case, destroying any hope of persuading the reader to share their point of view. In this article, an example is how Ms Martins never discusses the good girls of generation Y, she only discusses the bad ones. This does not give the reader a fair and accurate look at girls. Omission of Detail has been used to ensure the reader takes change to fix the modern teenage girls.
Using feature article conventions, Rebecca Martin has persuaded the audience that the young women of today's society have
Anecdotes play a pivotal role in immersing the reader into the issue by using personal stories and experiences. Martin has successfully used this convention to provide indisputable evidence while bring the issue closer to the reader's own perspective. The following extract is an example of an anecdote in the text, 'I got there at 11 to find to find police everywhere and smashed bottles. I almost died'. This anecdote is from a stressed parent who found her daughter stumbling away from a party gone wrong. It presents evidence to support the reader's point of view while using a personal story to immerse the reader in the story. Martin has successfully used anecdotes in her feature article to persuade the audience that the morals of young girls are changing.
What you don't know won't hurt you. The author has used the technique of Omission of Detail to ensure the reader understands the problem with teenage girls of the Twenty-First Century. Author's often don't include information that will go against their case, destroying any hope of persuading the reader to share their point of view. In this article, an example is how Ms Martins never discusses the good girls of generation Y, she only discusses the bad ones. This does not give the reader a fair and accurate look at girls. Omission of Detail has been used to ensure the reader takes change to fix the modern teenage girls.
Using feature article conventions, Rebecca Martin has persuaded the audience that the young women of today's society have