Rhetorical Analysis Of Don T Take Notes With A Laptop By Cindi

Elizabeth Barkley, author of Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, said “Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning.” This quote means that students become more engaged in the taught information when they are motivated and are actively learning. Students are motivated when they feel they are understanding the material and they are taking in the information. A way that students make sure they are engaged is by taking notes. In A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop by Cindi May, the author expresses her position about taking notes by hand versus typing notes. Cindi believes taking notes with a laptop is insufficient for the knowledge of a college student. For this claim, Cindi provided adequate evidence based on a study by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer. Throughout the article, Cindi uses different rhetorical elements to help persuade the reader to agree with her claim. May demonstrates the rhetorical elements of audience, author, and purpose by writing for a magazine, providing her credentials, and offering evidence to support her claim. …show more content…
The author, Cindi May, is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Charleston. She focuses on the higher learning in college students, people with cognitive disabilities, and older adults. May’s credentials help establishes her argument and gives the reader a sense of certainty because they know that she knows what she’s talking about. This article is leaned towards the audience of college students because college students are more likely to be typing their notes than high school, junior high, middle school etc. Audience is one rhetorical element that May utilizes throughout her