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Social Network Profile Costs Woman College Degree
Internet is such a phenomena of twenty-first century that, it has change the landscape of the human society. As a part of the internet phenomena, social media has also gain an immense popularity among all ages. People are able to interconnect between each other, despite being in two different part of the world. Exchange of idea and sharing a common value has only strength each day because of the social media. Despite of its popularity and simplicity, it also has a dark side which often don’t see as black and white. One silly post or photo on social media could bring someone’s future down, and stay on online hunting entire life. For instance, in the article, “Social Network Profile Costs Woman
College Degree.” The author Sarah Perez provides a convincing argument for why social media users should exercise extra caution when using internet. Her argument follow basic tulmin models: Perez’s argument uses the basic elements of the tulmin model: claim, support, warrant, and backing for the warrant, rebuttal, and qualifier.
The writer of this article makes the claim that a woman lost her degree because of the photo posted on MySpace account. The claim presented in this article is a claim of fact.
Perez used several levels of support to back her claims.
The sub claim are broken into five different categories with support on each category. For the first level of support she used five basic sub claim. She provided five sub claim are, the case of drunken pirate, was the photo really to blame, use privacy controls on your social network profile, don’t be so quick to criticize, and MySpace lost Snyder her degree. On the first sub claim, “The Case of “Drunken Pirate,” Stacy Snyder. The support was provided as, the primary reason for University to deny her college degree was the photo posted on Stacy Snyder’s MySpace account. Where she had posted a photo of the cocktail with the accompanying note, “Drunken pirate.” Following the first sub claim, the second sub claim was provided as, “Was the Photo Really to Blame?” In this section, the support was presented as, to be denied a college degree was more because of Snyder unprofessionalism and her bad performance review, where photo only play a small role. The third sub claim read, “Lesson Learned: Use Privacy Controls on Your Social Network Profile.” In this part, the support for this claim was provided as, this incident could have prevented by turning a privacy setting on, or by limiting who can see the post. On the second last of sub claim, it is written, “Don’t Be So Quick to Criticize.” In this part, it clearly stated that, this is not an isolated incident, but the problem of overfamiliar is of many younger teacher who disagree with their older supervisors. At the end of the five sub claim, “MySpace Lost Snyder Her Degree.” It clearly says that the problem with Snyder was not being professional, but and at the end, the photo cross the last thing on acceptance
list.
The warrant for this article is implied. The author is expecting the audiences to understand that, although social network has provided a platform to share a person’s point of views. But one has to be cautious what can be put on social media. Writer also presented that, anything writing negative about someone on online will bring that person in trouble.
Backing for the warrant is also implied in this piece of writing. It has showed that all the bad things happened to the Stacy Snyder because of her decision to put the picture on social media with caption, “Drunken Pirate.”
There is not a rebuttal presented in this article.