Violent Games are Emotionally Desensitizing AOW #27

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012124019.htm

The article I read was about an experiment to see if violent video games made people want to be just as violent in real life. Their studies showed signs of the video games making the participants "emotionally desensitized". By this they mean that the participants who played the first-person shooter games did not respond as strongly with a fear element to the image shown to them because they were so used to seeing images just like it. The source of this article is sciencedaily.com. This site is a very popular website for up to date news for research that has been conducted. It establishes its credibility through referencing the University of Bonn's experiment and explaining it well. Outside of this piece, there are many arguments going on about how violent video games corrupt children and make them want to kill people. This is why this article was written. This piece wants to give the reader the true information about how these video games affect an individual. This article was written for all who relate in any way to the violent video games that this article is talking about.

The main rhetorical element in this piece was the use of logos. The majority of the paper was about the study that was conducted by the University of Bonn. Another element I saw was ethos. The author established his/her credibility through referencing and explaining the experiment. The pattern of development that this piece used mainly was exemplification. It worked well with what the article was trying to do. In the end, I believe that this article achieved its purpose because It gave the straight facts about the effect of violent video games on an individual.