This is a tragic accident that happened last week,
however, because of a well-trained employees that had been working in Asian
Airline, for many years, most people were able to escape from this accident
with minor damages. A cabin manager Lee
Yoon-hye, knew that this accident might have been worse, but because of their
endless effort to make the flight attendant calm, it wasn't as chaos as it
could have been. This article gave lots of examples and explain the situations
as if I was one of the person that was trapped inside the airplane. The author
of this article, Victoria Kim did an excellent job on writing this article for
others that haven’t heard or seen about. She used many exclamation marks to
express the feelings as well as a detail insight of what were actually going on
inside the airplane. She did an outstanding job of explaining every parts of
detail, for example, “Lee then grabbed a fire extinguisher and handed it to the
co-pilot who tried to put out the flame (Victoria 1).” Although the author wasn't on the scene where everyone was frightened and worried about the crash, I think
she did lots of researches about this accident and an interview of a passengers
as well as the employees that were inside the plane. Also, there was only one
page on this article which made it less boring and only contained a suffice
information so it made it easier for the readers to read. Therefore, overall, I
think this article was well written.
Article Link: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-flight-attendant-20130708,0,3708058.story
Article Link: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-flight-attendant-20130708,0,3708058.story
I greatly appreciate your analysis of the author's article as it cues me as to what you value with respect to writing. For instance, you mention the use of exclamation marks. It might be interesting to note that such a practice may be acceptable in writing a news paper article but not in writing an academic paper. Why is that? Who determines what is and what isn't acceptable in a genre? You also note the use of details. Indeed, details certainly heighten a reader's ability to visualize a scene; however, like the use of exclamation points, the use of details--especially to this degree--finds value only in very specific genres of writing. If you continue to analyze articles, then I would invite you to consider the context sensitive nature of what you read. Certainly some practices can be appropriated for use in other contexts but not all.
ReplyDeleteI thought your topic was interesting but there was no backstory. What happened on the flight? Where did it happen? You just jump straight into how the passengers managed to survive and you only give a few sentences on that. After that you jump straight to how the writer of the article did a good job of explaining the incident even though she was not there. It was a good topic, but there needs to be more backround information and commentary on the even rather that how the writer wrote the article.
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