CommonPlace: Lucky There's a Family Guy

By Rebecca Loar

The audience for commonplace is college age students. Some characteristics of commonplace writing are persuasive, argumentative and entertainment. The writers have ensured that their pieces are timely, relevant and compelling by simply talking about things that are going on in todays society.The author of this story has used logos by thinking about Family Guy in a more logic way not just as some funny cartoon. The author of the piece also touches on how Family Guy's episodes about domestic violence are actually very offensive because Family Guy takes something so serious and tries to make it funny.Writers draw the audiences attention in the introduction because the writers use suspense to make the audience want to read more. I describe commonplace's writing style as agrumentative or opionated. They are similar to academic essays because they have a good thesis and follow basic academic writing skills. They are different because they don't just talk about academic related things they talk about things that are relevant to the audience for example Family Guy.Yes the author incorporated work from the ARP because the author complicates her thesis among other things. The writers primary source was the episodes of family guy that portray domestic violence.The writer doesn't use a secondary source in the article.