Evaluation

| Vanessa Denice | Mandy Edwards | Rich Maggiani |

Tone | neutral | neutral | neutral |

Author’s point of view | social media has effects on online writing and the way we communicate | social media can change the way we communicate | social media can change the way we communicate |

Intended audience | public | public | public |

purpose | to inform | to inform | to inform |

Author’s bias | neutral | neutral | neutral |

Author’s assumptions | -when people spent prolonged time on social media, it will affect their behaviour and feelings | -social media can make us lose some of our social skills | -social media has altered the basic rules of communication |

Types of support | Expert’s opinion-“There’s a big disconnection going on here that’s very real for some people” (Dr. KateRoberts, a Boston-based school psychologist) | Fact-Writing is more summarized | Statistics-Only about 45 percent of Gen Y grewup in two-parent households. |

Relevance | Relevant-The study indicated that of the 689,003randomly selected Facebook users who were exposed to more positive language and contentwere more likely to reflect those emotions (researchers reduced the amount of negativestories that appeared in the News Feed) | Relevant- Writing is more summarized-Abbreviations are more prevalent | Relevant- The entire paradigm of social media has altered the basicrules of communication, especially betweenbusiness and theiraudiences. |

Objectivity | Objective- The study indicated that of the 689,003randomly selected Facebook users who were exposed to more positive language and contentwere more likely to reflect those emotions (researchers reduced the amount of negativestories that appeared in the News Feed) | Objective- JeSuisCharlie & Betty White hosting Saturday Night Live, which came asa result of a social media campaign. | Objective- The entire paradigm of social media has altered the basicrules of communication, especially betweenbusiness and theiraudiences. |...