Taylor Swift: Combating Typical, Scandalous Celebrity Behavior.
By Katie Hudson
Who is the audience for commonplace?
This article is directed at young teenage girls (and boys)
Create a list of characteristics that define the genre of writing on commonplace.
- The writing is more informal.
- The writing uses language that seems to speak to people our age (teens and young 20's)
- The topics are more based on current happenings that might be interesting to people our age.
How have writers ensured their pieces are timely, compelling, and relevant?
They chose topics that are all of these things to them, and then wrote it to a group of their peers. Commonplace has a group of peer editors to choose which articles make it on the site so they must also find the essay timely, compelling, and relevant.
How has the writer used ethos, logos, and pathos in the composing of the piece?
The writer uses Ethos by quoting authority figures in her article, and explaining why the quoted work applies to the topic of the essay.
The writer uses Logos by stringing all of her claims together with evidence to support them.
The writer uses Pathos with the paper topic itself. The topic of teen's need to show sex appeal, and focus purely on looks and partying is widely controversial. Swift is trying to go against all of that and teach real values, which appeals to the masses on an emotional level.
How do the writers draw their audience into the essays in the introduction?
The writer of this specific article talks about a very popular artist and an incredibly popular song about 15year olds. This has already attracted some people, and those who aren't simply attracted by that, are hooked due to the writers contrast of Swift to the more risque artists of pop. (Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus)
How would you describe the style of Commonplace essays?
Commonplace essay seems to be more layed back than a more scholarly article. The writing style is more informal, and about less academic subjects.
How are Commonplace essays similar to academic essays? How are they different?
They are similar to academic essays because they are well thought out, they have topics people might want to know about, and they use quoted evidence to prove a point. They are different in the fact that they are written more informally, and are focused on issues that apply to people around the college age.
How has the essay published on Commonplace incorporated the work from the ARP? Can you see what primary source the writer was working with? How is secondary source material used?
The quoting is different, but you can see the secondary sources being integrated. There is far less summary in the article I found than there is in my ARP. You can definitely tell that they made it a little more casual so people our age would read it, and actually be interested. The clarity of exactly what specific thing is the writers primary source is less clear. It seems to be more focused on the person as a whole rather than one specific thing that was analyzed.
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