Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Essay 1 Proposal
For my first essay I am going to write about the benefits of laughter that is talked about in the book Laughing Matters. The purpose of this is to let the reader know that there are actual physical benefits from laughter not just feeling good. They have even done studies that show that laughter raised peoples pain thresholds, it causes an endorphin rush and can even cause people to have healthier immune systems. The author hopes to get people to realize this and have laughter become part of their life every single day. The audience for this piece is everybody. It doesn't matter if your young or old, laughter can help to improve everybody's life. The writer seems trustworthy because he gives us stories of actual studies they have done and cases where laughter really has been a good medicine for some people. By seeing it work for other people it makes us trust the author and know that they are not making it up.
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Were the studies on laughter done on a particular age group or was the study made up of all ages? You mentioned that laughter can help to improve everybody's life so I take it that the study was made up of all ages. Just make sure that was the case because if not, then laughter cannot be generalized to improving everyone's immune system.
ReplyDeleteI'm most interested in the physical benefits from laughter and I think many people will enjoy reading about them. Maybe you could include in your paper great detail about physical benefits and how they were discovered.
This would be a great idea for future essays in this class, but not really for essay #1, at least not as you have it framed here in your proposal. For this essay, you want to focus on how the writer of the essay you're focusing on creates his/her argument. What devices are used, meaning, if you are convinced by the writing, why? If you're not convinced, why not? Also, how does the writer appeal to the logic/reason and emotions of his/her audience? How does the writer establish credibility? Don't let yourself get bogged down by the message of the piece; focus on how the author gets the message across.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your proposal here is very brief and isn't developed enough to really tell me or your peers much.