In Joel Stein’s article “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” he addresses the topic of how the millennial generation will save everyone and improve the world. Stein states that millennials consist of people born from 1980 to 2000 and that they are the biggest age grouping in American history. Stein begins his article with his counterargument that millennials are lazy, narcissistic, overconfident, and entitled, but halfway through his article he changes his argument and writes about how millennials are nice, understanding, and optimistic. Although at the end of his article, Stein does not use excellent diction nor does he offer tons of statistics, he is still successful at getting his point across because of his organization, his humor, and his statistics. Stein’s method of organization allows his article to attract his intended audience, which is the older generations like Generation X, the Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation. He begins his article with his counterargument and says, “Here’s the cold, hard data: The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s now 65 or older, …show more content…
Stein uses the word, or some form of, narcissism fourteen times. To go to that expense of word usage just to disprove that word lessens his credibility as a writer. Seeing his lack of diction already would make people start to not trust his argument and start to not believe anything he says. Stein also uses the word “Ghettofabulous” (28). That would be very offensive to most people reading this article. This word choice is a poor judgment on Stein’s part, and the fact that he put it in the third paragraph is even worse. That probably made the few millennials and maybe some of the older generations stop reading almost