Why Is Anna Quindlen Reading Has A Strong Future

Arguing For the Literate Future Writer, Anna Quindlen, in her argumentative essay, “Reading Has a Strong Future.” Informs how the introduction of E-Readers is changing the perspective many have towards physical books. Quindlen’s purpose is to convey the idea written books are a thing of the past, is inaccurate and that while they will continue to thrive, E-readers are reaching people in far more communicative ways. Quindlen effectively creates not only an emotional response within her audience by building an argument, drawing statistics to increase her credibility, and involving the audience which consists of American readers. Quindlen begins her article by introducing and building an argument against the idea that “The book is dead (1).” With the introduction of E-readers in society, printed works will cease to become necessary and no longer have a place as a literary tool in the coming future. Quindlen develops her argument against this point by drawing several comparisons to other times in recent history when a new technology sparked heralding rumors of the

This creation of credibility within her article is pivotal in her argument since it shows that she is not simply spouting a personal opinion based on jilted self-denial of the encroaching realm of digital media, but rather an opinion stated by fact influenced greatly by her profession and the data Quindlen inserts into her article. Without this data at this point in the article there would have been little more than speculation, and would have caused the audiences minds to create a sense of self-doubt while reading the article and seeing the information they were being given as the ravings of a fanatic rather than someone with a logical viewpoint, and a clearly credentialed view on the topic and the main ideas that are expressed through its