As all media, like famous movies and best-selling books, has negative and positive opinions for an evaluation of the media, this essay, “Let’s Get Active: Why Exercise is Very Crucial”, also has my critical and affirmative evaluation. In my view, I divided my evaluation into three parts: strong points, shortcomings, and weaknesses. I argue that the essay makes readers concentrate their attention on a novel expression method and the contrast between the title and the first sentence. Moreover, the beginning of the paragraphs are classified into small groups like a funnel. On the contrary, the essay has a problem of repetition and is lacking in personal examples. Furthermore, the author focused on only the …show more content…
The author mentioned a personal example about his father’s encouragement for exercise in the first and second paragraphs such as “my father pushed me to play sports that I started becoming more active” (Swafford 1) and “All I ever wanted to do was sit in front of a screen until my father made me play football” (Swafford 2). I believe that if the author wrote different examples, the reader could find the essay more interesting. Furthermore, the author insisted on how exercise is crucial and important without sufficient reasons nor proper examples. Even though the author announced the specific names and problem of diseases which appear from the absence of exercise, the lack of reasons and examples gives knowledge too abstractly for the reader to understand how exercise is crucial for preventing these problems. If the author had given concrete personal examples and reasons to support how exercise is effective for such diverse problems, the readers could effectively get more out of the essay. For instance, the author could have given an example of his neighbor overcoming depression from exercise. This personal example can deliver the strong merits of