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Essay On Marie Winn

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Marie Winn, the writer, progressively constructs an logical argument in order to convince the

reader that watching television is harmful to children by usage of persuasive language and mentioning

reliable facts, researches and studies done by professional researchers to prove the negative effects

to children of watching television; Winn also builds her statement by emphasizing the responsibility of

the parents that children should not watch television for a long time, because it will give harmful

effects to their children: their moral, education, social/family relationship, etc.

To start with, Marie Winn clearly made her argument by mentioning some evidences such as

researches or studies in order to maximally persuade her audience and give the reasoning of …show more content…

Moreover, Marie Winn also strongly asserted her statement by emphasizing the duty of the

parents which is preventing the children to get affected by harmful elements. For instance, in the

passage, Marie Winn mentions about one group called “ACT: Action For Children” which is about

concerning and protesting against inappropriate programs which are incessant and violent. Then, she

mentions a quote which is “…Parents have the right to ask that programs aimed at the young should

meet the specific need of children…” Winn puts a quotation mark in this quote in order to emphasize

the voice of the parents is the easiest solution to prevent children from watching inappropriate

programs in television. Then, she keep mentions about the negative effects of watching television:

she mentions that “TV programs will find making friends difficult and will be labeled as an outsider”,

“Television offers cheap junk programs”, and “They need opportunities to work out basic family

relationships, thereby coming to understand themselves; television only reduces these opportunities”.

Marie Winn mentions these disadvantageous effects in order to send hostility to the parents

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