They say, I say Chp 5

In the passage from Charlip, its clear in both the title of his writing, and the final sentences of it just how he feels about the topic he is writing on. the topic is social classes. He is unsettled with the lack of identity in today society as the idea of social classes begin to disipate. in this passage he refers to others such as marx and engals and wishes that their views on society were in fact true. the author talks in 1st person the entire passage, and uses it effectively in refering to other people to support his own views, such as when he talks about his sociology teacher and his own views on how society and its classes are ever changing. Throughout the reading he blatently states things such as "if only this were true" follwing marx and engels statement about 2 generalized social classes and "what class do i come from? what class am i in now?". both of these are clearly and effectively stating his opinion in first person.

7.J

1. What kind of writing does this paper most resemble-in terms of layout and design?

I think it most resembles a magazine article. Its pretty informative to be one, but it has pictures and would appeal to a variety of audiences interested in the evolvement of our society throughout time. It makes a lot of references to common pop culture, and it written somewhat freely to be anything more formal then a magazine, such as a documentary.

2. How might the audience (layout or design) of this paper influence the way an audience reads it?

The appearance of the paper makes it seems very "readable to the average person". i think it seems like this because of the pictures first and foremost. not only are there pictures, but they are very familiar pictures to people who dont live under a rock. i think this causes the reader to judge it at first glance, and then reading it very "loosely".


3. How would the paper change if you removed the images and re-formatted it to look more like a typical college research paper?

I think this paper would lose alot of its effectiveness as a piece of literature. The format and design of the paper suits the subject of the paper very nicely due to the fact that it is written informally, its about informal society, and contains pictures of an informal nature. If this was to be turned into a college research paper, then it would lose this sense of parallelism, and probably end up being alittle bit on the boring side.