James Hamblin's The Power In Writing About Myself

Writer James Hamblin argues that using a journaling app can have positive health benefits in his article “The Power in Writing About Yourself”. He effectively builds his argument by using a Relative Data, Informal Tone, and use credible people to get his point across.

The author James Hamblin uses relevant data to show people expressive writing has benefits. Qian Lu, director of the culture and health research at the University of Houston, “found improvement in several health metrics, including levels of stress and positive affect, and overall quality of life.” The information that is presented here to show facts. These facts are used to make a more believable argument. Hamblin showed this study to get readers to see that writing is a good thing that we should all participate in writing and using the journal app can solve the solution. He also added that “ in the Journal of the American

He talks about how “ I’ve promise myself I’d start keeping a journal on at least 7.000 separate occasions. Emojinary, or at least its interactive approach, may be a solution.” When he uses this kind of tone he can connect to the reader on the same level. This makes the reader feel like they are having a casual conversation with the author. This makes us as the reader feel like he is just one of us he is nothing special and that he even tried it. He believes that if the readers do not have time to do journaling, using the app is a good solution to the problem. Here is another example of him using informal tone “Why are you so interested in me, bot? I know, it’s because you’re a bot that’s doing its bot job. Or because you love me, and only me, forever.” He is talking to the bot as if it is an actual person. This could show the readers that the bot could be used as a mean to talk to as a real person. This is a good choice of device to use because when he goes to the reader’s level and talk to us as equal we tend to