journal 4

Koehler makes her argument by citing many sources including interviews with her friend. I do not think her argument is effective though. I don't think she presented herself to the audience very well because she immediately mentions how she is constantly correcting her friend's grammar. This statement caused me to look at the rest of the essay in a negative way and I was kind of annoyed in some ways with the way she presented her arguments. The essay would have been more convincing to me if she would have appealed to both sides more fairly. I understand that she is against textspeak or at least thinks it is hurting the english language but she could have done a better job at appealing to the people she was trying to convince to use better grammar.