According to a recent report of The Guardian, a survey of Booktrust indicates that parents in nowadays spend much less time on reading to their children daily. Children, at the same time, spend lots of time on watching TV, DVD or surfing on the internet.
This article has a very effective start. Like most of the news article, this article starts with a short, conclusive sentence so that audience can acquire the essential idea of the whole article at the first glance.
It is followed by the details of the survey which includes related statistics. For instance the second graph shows among 1,500 parents, only one in three parents are reading to their kids daily. The average four to five-year-old spends double time on watching TV weekly when compared with doing reading. The average 11 to 12-year-old spend 8 and a half in front of the television per week. The advantage of doing so is that statistics can support the author’s idea to make the news article more persuasive. Also these statistics can help audience form a specific idea about how less time parents spend on reading to their kids. Furthermore, if audience still feel interested in this topic after seen the first sentence of the article, he or she can moving on to get more details.
To generate topic and discussion about the survey, the author then incites several reasons for such situation for parents. That is—busy life, fatigue and having to cook dinner. The author then quote a message from the director of Booktrust to suggest that even though parents now have a more stressful life, they can still squeeze enough time to read for their kids since early education is quite important.
To me, this news article is more like a promotion article for the charity organization Booktrust since the statistics and quotes in this article are all from it. However the angle and way of writing can alert the public about children’s education and even our own life style.
I agree with your idea that there's less parents who read a book or talk to their children in daily life. This news article try to use a persuasive tone to the audience,which make this news more accessive and warm.
ReplyDeleteIn the modern society,with the wide spread of technolody, people do not care about the emothional communication anymore,which should be taken into consideration.
This is a great article to analyse. It really highlights the effects of modern technology on our human relationships. Also is a great social commentary on our societal priorities. Now women are more likely to be working, are pressured for time and as a result perhaps putting thier children in front of the TV is the most convinent option. I wonder if the research identified whether the parents watched the TV/DVDs/interent surfed with the children? At least this would show that they are still interacting with thier children on some level. Claire
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