Analyzing Sherry Turkle's Argument

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Imagine two people are arguing; one person is clearly right, but the other person is obviously winning. Why is this? People that make convincing arguments are usually the ones who can vouch for their character and make the audience think that they should believe them. Along with making people think they are trustworthy they must also appeal to human emotion. Change the way they feel and it will change the way they think. Finally, the argument must be reasonable and logical to the people who need convincing. The person who wins the argument isn’t always right, but they were able to convince an audience that they were by vouching for their character, appealing to human emotion, and by creating a reasonable and logical justification. In the essay, …show more content…

A means of convincing people of such is known as Ethos. Turkle expresses ethos initially by stating, “I’ve been studying psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. For the past five, I’ve had a special focus: What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather test than talk” (Turkle Par. 3)? Even without reading the article or knowing what her opinion is, readers now know that Turkle has spent years studying in this field along with half a decade studying face-to-face conversations. Sherry Turkle has passed the first step to winning an argument by proving that she is a trustworthy source of information, but she has not won the entire argument …show more content…

Observational learning is described as learning behaviors through watching others. Turkle shares a story based on this learning style. She says, "A 15-year-old boy told me that someday he wanted to raise a family, not the way his parents are raising him (with phones out during meals...) but the way his parents think they are raising him – with no phones at meals and plentiful family conversation" (Turkle Par. 5). The boy observed his family interactions around their phones and learned how it affected them, so he decided that he did not want to raise his family the same way. While appealing to readers’ emotions, Turkle uses the concept of observational learning to strengthen her stance on technology 's effect on a family. Along with appealing to pathos, the author suggests a that it is completely reasonable to assume we are missing aspects of communication when we allow other things to preoccupy our

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