Sleep For Teenagers Rhetorical Analysis

Authors use appeals and literary tools in their writing every day such as in Hard Lesson in Sleep for Teenagers by Jane E. Brody. This helps strengthen the argument in the writer's works. Jane Brody uses an anecdote, logical appeals, and ethical appeals to support her claim. Brody uses an anecdote to grab the reader's attention. "Within a week of my grandsons' first year in high school, getting enough sleep had already became an issue." The use of this anecdote helps readers better connect to the claim. By using this it helps the audience think of their own experiences of not getting enough sleep and connects it with Brody's claim. This quote is given at the beginning to start the article out with a personal feel. The use of an anecdote also helps show that Brody is knowledgeable in the issue concerning sleep deprivation. She knows that there is an issue in not getting enough sleep and she wants to convince people way sleep is so important.

An example is "For example a 2005 study of more than 1,400 adolescents in South Korea where great emphasis is placed on academic success, found that they averaged 4.9 hours of sleep a night." This strengthens the argument by adding a fact. This fact shows how much sleep students are receiving every night and make the audience question if they are getting enough sleep. Writing facts makes it seem that Brody researched this topic very carefully and found tons of information about sleep deprivation. This quote shows that there have been studies about sleep deprivation in teenagers and this is not something new being