Analysis Of The Talking Cure By Margaret Talbot

In “The Talking Cure” by Margaret Talbot the author argument is very good and is evaluated through the many different ways. One way Talbot’s argument is evaluated is by the amount the of research she has done to support her argument. In the story, it states that “In all, Hart and Risley reported, they analyzed more than 1,300 hours of casual interactions between parents and their language-learning children” which shows the great amount research Talbot did find out how each social class has an effect on their children’s intellectual development because doing more than 1,300 hours of listening and recording the data would weeks and months to do. In addition to the vast amount of research Talbot had done to get her information she also gave many

One upper-middle-class African American family she spent time with—Terry, a trial lawyer; his wife, Christina, a corporate executive; and their nine-year-old son, Alexander—was especially fond of these kinds of debate” these two statements from the passage show deviance how two different social standards effect a child’s intellectual development. In a middle-class family, there is equal amount time of interaction between child and parent and the constant conversation between the parent and child is what gives the child the “intellectual confidence” it needs. In a more wealthier family the parent has higher education and higher jobs and their children’s intellectual development reflects that. In Terry’s case his children gets his debating over topics from being around his father constantly because he is a lawyer. Lastly, Talbot’s writing strategies also make her argument good because it helps give out the main focus of the passage. With the author’s writing strategy of giving out many different examples it helps people see how families from each different social class effect their children’s