Assignment 1- HLee

After reading "The Media Affecting Teenage Rebellion" essay, I found many similarities to the lists that we composed during class on Tuesday. Most of the topics that were discussed during class were apparent in the student's essay about how media affects teenage rebellion. A few specific examples are; brainstorming, citations, facts, timeline, information, organization, and time. Before any essay, a writer must brainstorm about what they want to write about and during this time, the writer can also start using organizational skills to compose a better essay. The use of citations were also apparent in the essay because any research paper is going to need information that the writer has gotten from a source. An example of this is on page 2, where the writer uses a quote from a book, "Adolescence has been shaped by both education and urbanization" (Busholtz 141). The writer uses a timeline as a list to better organize his thoughts and ideas so his audience can better understand his topic and corresponding research. Lastly, research essays will require many hours of gathering information before a writer can compose a thorough and accurate research paper.
The student's works cited page contains seven different sources that they used to find information about their topic. The student writer used both an online database like; EBSCO and ProQuest, and a book called "Social Marketing Campaigns and Children's Media Use." Most of these sources were used to back up the facts and points that the writer was trying to tell their audience. By using a source to back up a point gives their audience a sense of trust in the information that they are reading. The composer of this specific essay does a good job of used multiple sources in several paragraphs making their argument stronger and their point more valid.
The research question being discussed is "Does the media affect teenage rebellion?" This didn't surprise me since it would make sense that a person late in their teenage years would want to learn about how why people in their adolescence years will want to rebel because we have all gone through that stage in our lives. The writer defines adolescent as "Somebody who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult" (Page 2). Many students that attend this university are still stuck in this stage of their lives. A statement that the writer makes is the fact that "most teenagers do not give the media any recognition for influencing them, but consider peers and parents the primary influences on behavior." I agree with their point after reading their essay because all of the information was backed up by strong quotes throughout the essay.
My opinion about the style of writing that this student used falls under the academic genre because they are presenting their ideas in a form of a research essay rather than a comic because it wouldn't be appropriate to do so. This does not surprise me since I was assigned this reading from my English 102 teacher. The essay itself also fits the model of research writing that I expect, which is facts backed up by sources and online research.