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English 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Argument

Decent Essays

I have completed the necessary four essays for English 101 offered through the University of Idaho: Exploring Your Learning History through an Artifact, Analysis of a Person’s Social Networking Site, Response to an Argument, and Synthesizing Arguments. Each was a benign exercise: in the first I wrote on my very old invention journal, experimenting with sentiment and with descriptive vocabulary. In the second, I analyzed Paul Ryan’s twitter feed and found that politics is unsuited for 140 character tweets. In the third, I wrote on Charles Yu’s argument on the correlation between appreciation of technology and its ease of use, and in the fourth I synthesized arguments made on the minimum wage and formed my own.

To conclude this class, I am submitting the two essays I feel most exemplify my ability to write precisely and purposefully while still using and refuting arguments: essay three, as required, and essay four.

Essay three contains my response to Charles Yu’s highly emotional take on technology. Initially, I chose the topic simply due to my interest with technology without sufficiently analyzing the article. As I read more deeply into his tone, word choice, and argument structure, I found a poorly backed argument based almost …show more content…

I did concede to his writing style; although his style is personally aggravating due to the flowery language, the flow is excellent. However, I was still opposed to his argument, primarily due to his lack of current data. Yu overwhelmingly speaks of past technology, but not of current technology, and he misses some technology users with his rhetorical style. I was also opposed with his argument based on my own experiences. Overall, if he had addressed more users and more facets of technology, he would have argued with all the data on the table and would have been much more

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