Author Archives: michaelamcoll

Eli Saslow’s “After Newtown shooting, mourning  parents enter into the lonely quiet” is about the long and taxing road the families of the deceased individuals of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting have to go through, specifically Mark and Jackie Barden. This essay appeals largely to pathos, alternating between the long and seemingly inconsequential roadContinue reading “Lonely Quiet Summary and Place on Best of the Year”

David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” is effective through his ability to capture the audience in an unexpected journey. Firstly, Wallace opens with setting. He puts the reader into the geographical location of the event the essay is focused on and gives readers the sense of grandeur surrounding it. The words, “enormous, pungent, and extremely”Continue reading “Response to David Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster””

Elizabeth Royte takes advantage of the Medium platform to make a more effective essay in that she knows that she will have a niche audience reading about her topic (people interested in consumption, waste, sex, and/or environmental issues) and she can also utlize pictures to supplement her writing and bring readers along with her journey—notContinue reading “Royte’s Essay “The Remains of the Night””

2 stylistic elements: Audio inserts of recognizable voices (like Tyson) that use certain ear-catching techniques (speck, speck, speck). The audio inserts of what the people were talking about, such as Mozart’s music when they were talking about his music. Also, the audio inserts in the beginning, with Tyson and Sagan, added another layer to theContinue reading “Stylistic and Research Techniques from “Space””

Jay Rosen’s “When starting from zero in journalism go for a niche site serving a narrow news interest well” applies to how our group works in that we are each researching a specific topic. Our group is researching ghost stories and we originally had this broad view of what we wanted to research, such asContinue reading “Rosen’s Niche Interests”

Michaela: When I listened to the “How Old is Winnie the Pooh?” episode of Every Little Thing podcast, I noticed some stylistic choices the host used throughout the podcast. For instance, the podcast begins with a question from Annie, a listener, and invites her to not just be a caller, but to be in theContinue reading “Podcast Roundtable”

The first episode of Millennial lays out the vision for the show by creating narrative for what is going to follow next. For instance, the narrator begins the show with, well, a narrative focusing on her background history leading up to her moving in with her boyfriend. She shares with listeners her excitement for collegeContinue reading “First Episode of Millennial”

Out of Zakaria, Lehrer, and Anderson, Anderson is the worst case of plagiarism. He literally just copy and pasted words from Wikipedia (which is not a credible source anyway and begs the credibility about the research used for his book in the first place), blog posts, and other books. He tried to validate his “mistake”Continue reading “Plagiarism: Zakaria, Lehrer, and Anderson”

3 times Kine ran into a dead end and how she dealt with it: Kine ran into a dead end when she asked Donna about Hans being a chef. Donna responded that she didn’t know because she hated to cook, so Kine had to look elsewhere. She found a food blog that mentioned chef HansContinue reading “The Mysterious Buckle”

“The Giant Pool Of Money” differs from the “Fast Fashion” podcast in many ways. Most notably, the interspersion of interviews from people who lived through this financial crisis and was involved in it had interview time in the podcast, which served as a lot of the research. This helped with explanation and credibility in someContinue reading “Research in “The Giant Pool of Money””