- Robert Putnam establishes credibility by having written that he is a professor at an ivory league school (Harvard). He also establishes credibility by stating his sights as reliableand knowledgeable sights of information.
- All of the names listed are used in the article accept Comstock. Almost immediately in the first paragraph, the names John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey are named as researchers for Time. Needham was mentioned in the DDB Needham Lifestyle surveys in paragraph three. James Howard Kunstler was also quickly mentioned in paragraph four as a social critic and has an excerpt from something he wrote in it.
- By listing three sources Putnam is going above and beyond to make sure the reader can fully see all of the steps to his research. The extra sights and information help strengthen his argument and particularly the part by the little thirteen. He wanted the information to be part of his paper, but not part of the actual essay.
- The purposeof the fourth footnote was to cite the sources of the information on how the Internet access at home dramatically changed our entertainment. It might seem obvious to some people, but it is there to inform the reader and if they didn’t know what it was for it would be helpful.
- Putman uses his footnotes on number fifteen to support his claim because that study made the connection with the percentage of people that wanted to spend a night at home and the people who chose TV as their “primary form of entertainment”.
- By citing Kunstle’s paragraph, he makes his argument stronger because it adds to the credibility of the article and allows the credit to go to the rightful owner so the reader knows that this isn’t necessarily his opinion on the subject.
- Putnam’s notes and sources suggest that he had done extensive research before writing the essay. The sources all appear to be credible and come from reliable sources. He had to have read at least a couple of books on the subject and gone through several pages of paperwork to get the information he needed to write a paper of that skill level.
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