SWA #4

For my fourth writing assignment I chose to examine "Debate? Dissent? Discussion? Oh, Don't Go There" by Michiko Kakutani as my piece to examine. The text of this particular article was good but a little confusing at times for me. It may not seem confusing to someone else but for me I had to concentrate very hard just to stay on track to what Kakutani was talking about. Over all he did well with the text and how he organized it. I think that Kakutani had young reader such as college students in mind when he wrote this piece. Maybe even some college professors. Because he talks a lot about colleges and the students. I learned that he believes debate is important for students to understand how to debate properly and that debate is slowly disappearing. He also uses a lot of quotes from other professors to help get his point across. Im not sure that I can think of any constraints that could have influenced the author of this piece. The only constraints that influenced me as a reader are the things that were being talked about in this article. The title also helped me to want to read this article. I do share the fact that I do think debate is growing less important to the younger generation and they something needs to be done to stop this. I do find this argument convincing because he brings up a lot of good points and he knows what he is talking about.