PartⅠ.
Supporting articles
Alice G. Walton:
Topic: The possibility that Ebola
breaks out in America is a little, and South Africa’s Ebola needs some
management
Stance: People should care more about
Ebola
Where be published: Forbes
Topic: High doses of flavanols can
affect people’s brain and memory.
Stance: After the research completed, there might
some special product of chocolates.
Where be published: Forbes
Topic: Why Oreos can addict people?
Stance: Oreos may make good effects
for people
Where be published: Forbes
Elisabeth Øvreberg:
Topic: Reindeer meat is better than
fish
Stance: Reindeer meat is better than
fish
Topic: Religious feeling express in
lots of ways, crop circle is an example
Stance: crop circle is appropriate
for today
Topic: Leprosy is destroying people’s
lives as usual
Stance: Leprosy is a terrible
disease, people should care about it.
Conclusion: Both of the authors are writing generally
Part Ⅱ:
Source 1 :
How Parents’ Stress Can Hurt A Child, From The Inside Out
A: Determine
the Rhetorical Situation
Author: Alice G. Walton
Publication: An international publication
Audience: International audience who care
about the bad stress effect on child
Stance: The stress from parents will hurt
child
B: Examine
the language
Tone:
natural
Specific
words:
① parents’ levels of chronic stress can seriously
impact a child’s development.
② For developmental and neurological disorders,
while there are almost certainly genetic factors at play, it is possible that
environmental factors (like the environment in utero) may be a contributing
factor.
③ Epigenetics is the study of how genes can be
turned on or off with certain environmental cues, stress being one of them.
④
So pregnancy
isn’t the only time that parental stress can affect the development of the
offspring
⑤ This bubbling, happy prattle of parents talking
with each other is music to a kid’s ears.
All of the
routes tell that parents’ behavior affects their child. The first three shows
that parents’ stress will hurt child.
Evidence of
being objective: “Remember, no one ever had a
perfect pregnancy, and no one’s a perfect parent,” says Code.
This
sentence says that parents’ stress is unavoidable.
Evidence
of giving opinion: The author didn’t
give her own opinion.
C. Strong
point: Parents’ stress will hurt child
D. Weak
point: We should do our best no matter what situation we meet
Source 2 :
Stress Is Good For Children
A: Determine
the Rhetorical Situation
Author: Elisabeth Øvreberg
Publication: a local publication
Audience: Local audience who car about the
good stress effect on child
Stance: the stress from parents will help
child perform well
B: Examine
the language
Tone : natural
Specific
words:
① stress is healthy, especially for children.
②
"Everyone needs
to experience stress. This is how we learn to solve challenges, build knowledge
and acquire new skills," says Friborg,
③ Parents cannot do everything for their kids. If children learn
at an early age to overcome their shyness, they will develop self-confidence
and a feeling that they can cope with different social situations.
④ Being able to cope with stress liberates many positive emotions.
The desire to learn increases.
⑤ People who can cope with stress find it easier to forget
negative and painful things, and they find it easier going through life.
The first
two routes says that stress is necessary for child. The last three routes says
that stress has good effect for child.
Evidence of
being objective: You have to know where the boundary is.
Parents must establish an environment where their children can learn to master
the situation − and this is very important.
This sentence says that there is also a boundary of stress we
should care about.
Evidence of giving opinion:
The author didn’t give her opinion in a clear way.
C. Strong point: The stress from parents is good for child grow
up
D. Weak point: Child need support from family and friends, and
there is a limit of stress which parents give to child.
