1) Write a bit about how these essays differ from the writing you are used to writing/reading. How do they use a different structure, tone, techniques, etc?
2) Take one of the essays and write a few sentences about the purpose and audience for the essay. What are they and how do you know?
In this class so far, we have been mainly writing more formal sounding essays that are obviously meant to persuade the reader. The narratives were still meant to persuade, but they did so in a less obvious way. Most essays that I have been reading and writing are not written in first person. They have had a more personal and open feeling to them than what is usually written for school. Narratives seem like more of a creative type of writing, because you use your own experiences.
The purpose of the Kotaku narrative was to convince the readers that gamers are responsible for the amount of time they spend playing video games. The audience is most likely gamers, which is stereotypically males age 16 to mid twenties. They would probably be reading the blog expecting it to be a story about how video games ruined him and he was blaming it on the producers.
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