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Summary Of Your Brain On Video Games Rhetorical Analysis

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Purpose: This article will mainly help me look a little more into how companies look to get more people to watch television. They adapted to how society is becoming more reliant on smartphones and asked the question “how can we get more people to watch our shows?” This gives me a great piece of information because it is similar to my main question that I am writing about

TEDTalks: Daphne Bavelier--Your Brain on Video Games. TED, 2012.
Summary: This source is a TED talk presented by a cognitive researcher by the name of Daphne Bavelier. It is a presentation where she talks about her finding in studying kids who play a high amount of video games. She argues that even with all the negative stigma, video games actually do have a positive effect …show more content…

I do not believe she displays any bias throughout the entire TED talk because she can back up all of her opinions with facts and she doesn’t have any experience of her own playing large amounts of video games. This source isn’t really similar to any of my other sources because it makes an argument the a lot of screen time is actually good for you in many ways. Most of my other sources mainly talk about how television time harms …show more content…

I will do my best to find my own arguments rather than just use a re hashed model of his arguments.

Too Much TV Bad For Your Health? Perf. Cody Spain. Too Much TV Bad For Your Health?ABC News, 16 June 2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2017. .
Summary: My next source is a piece that was broadcasted on ABC news. It was a short piece where they talked about the negative effects of too much television. They supported their arguments by having experts on the subject talk in front of the camera and explain their findings. It also says that watching too much TV can lead to other bad habits

Evaluations: The source’s intended audience would probably be regular people watching the news. If affects them because TV playes a big role in most people’s lives and this news story can really inform someone who might be spending too much time in front of the screen. The source seems pretty credible however it might pose some bias since it is actually coming from a tv news network. This relates to some of my other sources because it goes over the harm of watching too much

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