For instance, in the beginning of the article it says that people has always suspected that there is a big impact in all the whole digital era causing the UCLA research team to do a study proving people are correct. “People have long suspected that there’s a cost to all this digital data… a study out of UCLA that might prove those digital skeptics right.” (Why Access to Screens Is Lowering Kids’ Social Skills). Even though it is not a particular personal experience because no personal pronouns were mentioned. I believe “I or my” personal pronouns. I contemplate that when people start saying “well the people believe that the digital era affects kids…” It is like a group of people sharing their personal experiences and making them all their own. “a large group based on experiences with a few members in a group”. (Asking the right …show more content…
The speaker defends his or her point by having back up information with someone who has more experience about a certain topic. “Sources are supposed to know more than most of us. So called experts” (Asking the right questions). In the article the author uses two sources as appeal to authority. First she uses the UCLA research team to prove that the evidence she’s giving to us the readers is valid since researchers studied and expiremnted on it. In the end, she also uses Yalda T. Uhls as well as The Children’s Digital Media Center quote to remind us about the data results. “You can’t learn non-verbal emotional cues from a screen in the way you can learn it from face-to-face communication,” (Why Access to Screens Is Lowering Kids’ Social