Rushkoff's Argumentative Analysis

The usage of strategies in my interpretation statement was how Rushkoff used methods of persuasion, fear, and the aim of cognitive approach to show that looking toward the future was more beneficial than the present. The strategy I have used on writing this paper was connecting emotional feelings to readers and insert hesitations of their situation by texts that could associate with them. Before, my statement was about how Rushkoff used logical reasoning to prove his claim. Now, is a new thesis, “Throughout the article, he uses examples that people in modern society would be able to connect to through strategies of pathos, ethos and a cognitive angle. As an additional supportive strategy Rushkoff did, he establishes fear in certain types of

First grasp of interpretive knowledge of the article was the same as Rushkoff. Reading the article was not much of a helpful aspect for this portfolio, but with a summarizing activity in class, I was able to know what the author wanted me to know. It was helpful when I was able to know what my classmates’ have had in mind after they read the article because what I interpreted was similar but not on point. I assumed I had to write in a similar fashion as my first portfolio of Rushkoff, but what my instructor wanted was a dialogue between two authors, to argue with each other to some extent. The purpose of Levy’s paper was to show that Rushkoff and Levy wanted what was the best for modern society through their individual purpose and evidence. “...existing management methods, largely based on on-site, face-to-face interaction, and were no longer up to the task of controlling the new faster-moving, distributed organizations…” (Levy p.70). He blames technologies for the lack of intellectual communication. As the world accelerates with new technologies, it is difficult to control what normal interaction means anymore. While Rushkoff says that “You don't have to worry anymore about how to communicate with employees as compared to customers.” (p.119). The phrase, 'I talk, you listen.' is, in fact, what wasting time really meant.” The changes in have made