Project No Spanking

Murray Stratus wrote a research article called “New Evidence for The Benefit of Never Spanking” to argue that parents spanking their children is ineffective and should be stopped.  He supports this thesis by giving examples of recent research and studies that were released. Murray wants other researches and people that are against spanking their kids to figure out better ways to inform parents of how wrong it is in order to persuade the parents. The intended audience is other researchers and people who are against spanking kids.

I partly agree with the text of this article. I believe that spanking your child should not be the first option you choose but I don’t agree with it being wrong and unethical. My parents whopped me as a child and I turned out perfectly fine. They didn’t whoop me all the time though. The only time they would choose to whoop me is if I repeated the same wrong doing over and over after they told me it was wrong. I was always warned before they whooped me too. They would say “the next you do this I will whoop you” I honestly think that was a fair warning.

This article is a formal informative article. The audience was other researchers and people who opposed spanking their kids. The author gives examples of better ways to make it noticeable to parents that spanking is bad. Like “there can be a “No-Spanking” poster and pamphlet in every pediatrician’s office” 

Disciplining Kids

In the non-fictional article by Shirley Henderson, "To Spank or not to Spank", Henderson explores the various ways of disciplining children. The author describes the different ways of disciplining kids through physical and non-physical ways of punishment in order to inform parents of the good and bad outcomes of each method.

The article appears to focus on a topic that brings out different opinions from various readers. For example, readers with kids of their own may have different methods of discipline for their children rather than the readers without kids of their own. According to Henderson's research, parents tend to practice more of a physical approach to disciplining kids. She also brings in the account of how ones race effects their technique of disciplinary action.

Can You Read?

In the article titled Conneted to Scholarship: Reading Academic Articles, the audience the article pertains to is the students who's reading the article. The style of the article is formal. In the informative article Fletcher tells students about scholarly acticles and stubbling across big words inside articles. The context of the article is telling students how to do well in college English, and how to read scholarly articles correctly. The article pertains to the author because she is a professor here at Clayton State University. The purpose or the reason why she wrote this article is to inform all who read it. The genre is  a nonfiction informative article. The article's arrangement is set up between different subtitles within the article to break down certain topics.