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This article was written by Audrey Browning on May 11. The authors intend was to share the irony of how many AP high school students discussed Trump in their essays about “artifice” in politics. But he also mentions that some students did not reference Trump. Browning's tone was humorous which was determined by including multiple memes about the test. The article included a tonal shift of going from people “roasting” Trump to mentioning that not all students used Trump as an example and that they started posting other memes about what they did write about. The author then mentions that students aren’t suppose to mention what was even on the test. The credibility of the topic itself comes from Buzzfeed which was the original place that Browning got her information on the topic. The author uses the words “creative” and “inspiration” to describe how she feels about the students. The article follows many different memes posted on twitter starting with just using #APLang, then memed what Trump would think about them, it moves on to what student who didn’t write about Trump posted, and it ends with memes mocking the college board testing administrators. The end of the article states “Here’s to hoping no test scores get canceled over memes!”
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The article was written by Phillip Tracy on May 4, 2017. The authors purpose of writing this article is to appeal to the website's main audience of teenagers by providing new updates of social media. This makes the reader feel excited about the possible update of TV shows on snapchat and create hope for the readers by including many other news websites to help bring it to life and mentioning other social media sites. The author creates an informational and matter-of-fact tone. Tracy provides much information about the new snapchat stories of TV shows as well as matter-of-fact because does not indicate any personal feelings towards the topic at hand. Tracy writes with concrete diction by involving lots of statements that would back up any claim made by other news sources. He uses words like “heavily involved” which supports that other media sources were involved in creating Tv show stories on snapchat. While Tracy used “goal” to prove that it should be accomplished and it was important that it would be. The author provides logical evidence about the TV shows, he mentions “You should expect to see two to three shows on Snapchat each day by the end of 2017, Snap confirmed with Business Insider.” This also appeals to the credibility of many other news websites that were referenced in the article such as NBCUniversal, ESPN, ABC, Turner, Vice, and the NFL. This appeal of credibility supports the argument greatly based on the the information stated by “The social media giant is said to have signed deals with a number of traditional media companies”. https://www.dailydot.com/irl/bill-nye-saves-world-ice-cream-gay-conversion/
This article was written by Samantha Grasso on April 30. The author’s intent is to make a serious issue like sexuality and gender into a less serious situation and more funny. He portrays a whimsical tone but starts off with a factual tone by describing conservative blogs and their take on the issue before. Then he started telling about what the metaphor represent which is when the author starts having a more whimsical tone. Using diction such as “demands”, “convert”, “change”, and “asserts” he describes what the video was showing therefore the tone Grasso shows while telling about the video was more insertive than whimsical but that was the overall tone. The diction Grasso used was insincere based on the word he used in the headline “impossibility” which indicates the author’s boldness to say that it is impossible to explain it which could challenge many people’s opinions. She also uses “revelations” to describe how the author thinks about Nye’s ideas. The author included a tonal shift at the very end of the article by stating “take a deep breath, folk” which could possibly mean she herself does not even agree with Bill Nye supposed scientific research. Grasso appeals to pathos and ethos. She appeals to our emotions by making us feel for the gay community and what they go through. The author provides credibility for other media websites who exploit Bill Nye’s lack of scientific basis. The argument created is slightly weak due to the fact that throughout it is hard to determine the side of the argument that she is on. Whether her opinion is that the video was good or bad. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fbi-translator-syria-marry-isis-recruiter/
This article was written by David Gilmour on May 2. Gilmour wrote this article to expose the wrongdoings of a former FBI translator and to claim that even sometimes good guys can make bad decisions. Towards the end of the article the author makes it seem like she should be lucky her sentence was only two years and now she has turned her life around. The tone used by the author is cynical and objective. He shows little emotion towards the subject at hand and the only time he does is when he mentions the character of Denis Cuspert. The author described Cuspert as “high-profile” and then after Daniela Greene married him, she “regretted” marrying him and a reason her sentence her so shortened was because she pleaded “remorse”. Gilmour appeals mainly to the credibility of who both Daniela Greene and Denis Cuspert were as people. Greene provided actual facts of what she did and how she felt afterwards. While Cuspert contained many different identities in many different countries. A video is also provided to give extra information about the marriage between the two. |
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