Adolescents and the Media(Informal Tone)

In this essay, the author said parents and paediatricians are so busy with their work that they do not have enough time to ask their children about media nor for themselves to watch it or listen it. Media affect teens in different ways. For example, media violence related to bulling. Media influence teens for suicide, sex, drugs, over eating etc. It also cause attention problem. “According to the first wave of long-term Growing Up in Australia study, infacts are already spending nearly 1.5 hours a day watching television, and 4-5-year-olds are spending about a their total play time(2.1 hours) watching television.’’ This is an example that author gave us to show that how media effect our children and teens. At the beginning he talked about the problems that cause by media and than he discussed and gave some solution of this problem. According to the Royal Australasian College, paediatricians should give more information about how media affect children and give some suggestion to parents in order to solve this kind of problem. They should also talk to the moviemaker so that they (the moviemaker) consider this serious issue. Parents, paediartricians and government have to work together to get rid of this problem.

All of the information that provided by the author made it an excellent piece. Every paragraph of the essay was equally important. Because each of them contain different evidence, statistics information, example. All of this information helps him to prove his point. Its structure was quite different from other three. He used subtitle, which help us to understand each of his point.

Even though he did not use many rhetorical devices, his strong information, and evidence replace that gape. Rhetorical question and repetition mainly used in this piece. “ Finally, both parents and paediatricians need to lobby governments for more funding for research into the crucial areas of how the media affect children and teens, what can be done to maximise pro-social media and protect against harmful media’s influence, better programming for young people, and more funding for media education campaigns and media education programs in schools.’’ Here he repeat the word ‘’for’’. It does not seem very informal to me because the author did not address the audience directly but he used reader inclusion and first person.