Thursday, July 8, 2010

Article Set #2

How I Used Twitter To Live-blog The Opera by Dylan Tweney and Riding The Rails of Malaysia, In Singapore by Neel Chowdhury are examples of good articles. The first article is fresh. No one has ever covered an opera on Tweeter as was claimed by Tweney. The inclusion of his actual tweets makes the article more interesting. The second article on the other hand shows great imagery, giving a good description of the train station and the ride itself. Chowdhurry makes his readers experience riding that train and even shows its importance of linking Singapore to Malaysia and Thailand.

David Pogue’s Big Phone, Big Screen, Big Pleasure has an interesting introduction but loses it toward the end. Obviously, it is written specifically for techy people or those looking for new gadgets in the market.

The two articles Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson and The String Theory by David Foster Wallace are too long and are badly written. They both have poor paragraph construction. The first article has bulks of paragraphs making it hard to read. The second one fails to focus on the topic as Wallace keeps on introducing new ideas to the readers.

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