Face To Face Conversation Rhetorical Analysis

Do people even have face-to-face conversations any more? In the article, “The Flight From Conversation,” by Sherry Turkle is successful on backing up that we, as people should get off the phone and social media so we can learn how to actually hold a proper conversation with someone else. Turkle supports her argument by using rhetorical strategies like logos, kairos, and ethos. To begin with, through logos Turkle gives logical reasoning that helps her central claim succeed, but also fail. She uses examples that reach different age groups so all readers can relate such as: elderly, businessmen, and teenagers. A 16-year-old boy that relies on texting was mentioned in paragraph six stating that he would like to learn how to have a conversation, just not at this time in his life. Which is truly a shame because it is almost time for him to go to college and in college you need to know how to have a regular face-to-face conversation for volunteering, clubs, internships, and even in certain classrooms. Talking to someone at this age should come naturally and second nature, but to know that it is not is truly a mistake in our

Turkle is a credible source because she is a professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which is highly based on research. Also, she is an author of a book on tech/human engagement. So she would definitely be credible because she has studied this topic and even wrote a book on it. The third paragraph starts off with her stating, ”Over the past five years, I’ve studied technologies of mobile connection and talked to hundreds of people of all ages and circumstances about their plugged-in-lives.” Turkle is not a newbie randomly deciding to write about this topic, she has been studying this topic for good amount of time and knows a lot about it while having a lot of research to back up what she