Author's Quote:One research study found that TV's effects on education were long term. The study found that watching TV as a child affected educational achievement at age 26. Watching more TV in childhood increased chances of dropping out of school and decreased chances of getting a college degree, even after controlling for confounding factors. Watching TV at age four was one factor found to be associated with bullying in grade school.
Paraphrase:According to researchers, a study has shown that watching television at a young age can affect your education level when the child reaches adulthood. Watching television at a young age can prevent you from getting a college degree, and maybe even your high school diploma. It increases the chances of teens dropping out of school at a young age as well. It can also increase the chances of your young child to become a bully in middle school and high school.
Summary:In this article, I found that television viewing is the earliest form of media exposed to children, often before the age of two. Advertisers target kids because they are more vulnerable to things like that and that can cause the parents to run low on their money because they want to full fill they're kids wants. Children see about, on average, 2,000 beer and wine commercials each year. If kids watch a scary movie, they can develop fears that will be with them for the rest of their life. It's proven that fear can cause sleeping problems. Overall, this article provides useful information about my topic.
Source Analysis:This article barely had any author bias in it. It was based mostly on facts and research. Some of the propaganda techniques used in this article are bandwagon and plain folks, like most of the article I have been researching. It is bandwagon because it is talking about a myriad amount of kids and how they are affected. It is plain folks because it is talking about regular, normal kids having these problems. The websites I have found have the same kinds of propaganda. A text element I found in this article is that the background is yellow. Yellow means an attention getter, and it makes people lose their tempers. I think the author used this color to show that this is an important issue and they should be more willing to put a stop to this.
University of Michigan Health System. "Television (TV) and Children: Your Child." University of Michigan Health System. 2011. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv.htm.
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