University:
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Course:
ENGL-202 | English Composition and Literature
Academic year:

2022
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106

Pages:

2
Author:

Kaiden Murphy

In the argument chapter, you learned about expressed arguments (overt arguments attempting to persuade the audience towards a point of view) and implied arguments (arguments that appear on the surface not to be arguments but actually seek to persuade the audience of a point of view or views). For this DQ, provide a specific example from the media of an expressed argument and an implied argument and answer the following questions:  What is the expressed argument you identified? What specific argument does the author make? What evidence does the author use to support his or her claims? An example of an expressed argument that I have found in the media is an article addressed to teens about how social media affects the brain. Teens usage of the social media platform is becoming more and more every day because of the popularity gain they receive from the amount of ‘likes, comments, and shares’ from their viewers. To support their argument, researchers at UCLA’S Brain Mapping Center were utilized to study the brain responses of random teens. Quoted from an author in the article is evidence that “When teens learn that their own pictures have supposedly received a lot of likes, they show significantly greater activation in parts of the brain's reward circuitry. This is the same group of regions responding when we see pictures of a person we love or when we win money” (East 2016).  What is the implied argument you identified? What specific argument does the author make? What evidence does the author use to support his or her claims?  In this cartoon editorial, we see Trump and a few well-known make-believe monsters that were intended for us to be afraid of. At some point we called them “monsters” based on the role they played as characters, but the role some Americans play as leaders makes our point of view no different from them. It is as if the ‘pot is calling the kettle black’. Why is it important to understand expressed and implied arguments?  Because they both have the same base word, the descriptive word gives them their distinctive meanings. One is to be used to persuade an individual onto your side of a certain discussion – expressed argument. The other is merely used to assist others in being open-minded to other options other than what is being presented but not arguing to choose a side – implied argument. How might you use your understanding of expressed and implied arguments when drafting your first essay in this course? By understanding these types of arguments, it will help me to control the flow and direction of my paper. I will either be choosing to persuade an audience or lay out other options and facts to ponder on.