Bridges And Manne's Article: Why Students Use Trigger Warnings

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Trigger warnings are being accused of coddling and restricting the student’s learning. Bridges’s article, “Why Students Need Trigger Warnings and Safe Places”, and Manne’s article, “Why I Use Trigger Warnings”, argues that trigger warnings are needed to increase the student's academic success. While Bridges’s credentials are more impressive than Manne’s, Kate Manne is more persuasive because she presents herself as fair minded, connects with her readers emotions, and organizes her argument effectively.
In the article, “Why I Use Trigger Warnings”, Kate Manne argues that trigger warnings are beneficial to the learning and growth of students because they allow the students to get into the right mindset to be able to engage with the lesson. Manne chooses to use trigger warnings when she deems them necessary to benefit the students with post-traumatic disorders. Trigger warnings are nothing new; however they have gotten a lot of criticism in colleges for coddling students. The warnings have served a different purpose in college, getting mixed reactions from those who are against the use of them. Manne brings up her reasons of why she uses trigger warnings and believes that these warnings could help prevent irrational reaction and allows students to have rational engagement.
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However, Bridges is able to appeal to the audience’s emotions by using anecdotes such as, “imagine” (Bridges), to make the audience feel like they could understand. On the other hand, Manne has more of a connection to the reader’s emotions than appealing to them. She uses a empathetic tone, and it makes her feel like she understands her readers. She also goes in details explaining what it is like to be in a triggered reaction, which provokes the audience to feel for those that goes through these emotions. Overall, making her more successful in use emotions to persuade her

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