How To Improve Your Personality
By Ann Landers- analyzed by DK & Shelby
Subject
Exigence
Audience
News Paper Readers
Self-Help Enthusiasts
Those who want to be a more confident speaker
Purpose
Logos
Ethos
Appeared in 1,200 newspapers world wide
Midwest upbringing influenced her social conscience
Website: annlanders.com
Location: Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Facebook: facebook.com/annlandersadvice
Twitter: @AskAnnLanders
Pathos
Diction
First Person
She uses long and short sentences to express what she means of "improving your personality"
Ex: "He's letting me know he has better things to do than to talk to me"
Ex2: "We all know men and women of whom it is always being said "What a great personality!"
Syntax
Provides rhetorical questions
Ex: "Do you make friends easily?" and "Do people seek you out, or tend to avoid you?"
Imagery
"If it has a shrill or nasal sound start working to change it immediately"
Visual:
'The person who talks too fast swallows words, hops from foot to foot, glances at his watch, and seems hurried and ill at ease" negative image of someone
Figurative Language
"Thinking before you speak is as important as looking before you leap" -Simile
Tone
- "There is no magic formula for improving your personality but .."
- "What A Great Personality!"
- "What what you do with your hands. All this will make you self-conscious for a while, but that is the point"
Assumptions and Warrants
She warns us that people might think we are boring and non approachable if we don't check our selves and have these habits she states.
Organizational Pattern
Each section of her writing is a different thought and example of her main idea.
Personal Response
Although, I get what Landers is saying about "Improving your personality" i don't agree on it for your day to day lives. I believe her steps are more for public speaking in front of people and presenting topics, not necessarily your daily social interactions because those whom you communicate with daily, should already love and accept you as are.