Text Response: A Little Civility, Please

The article “A Little Civility, Please” is a believable article because it was written by Mark Davis, a graduate from Maryland that has been writing for the Dallas Morning News since 2004.  Davis would be aware of controversial issue because the issues would arise in the news that he writes for Dallas.  Also, he uses a lot of claims in his article.  It seems that he uses claims of fact, policy, and judgment.  The claims of fact that he uses are the examples of the Supreme Court cases.  He uses his opinion in the article to support the child’s issues that he wants to argue.  Lastly, he uses claims of policy by stating that the child should be able to have any controversial issue he wants.

The thesis of this article is should schools be able to have rights that would seem to violate the First Amendment rights.  The question if so, in what areas and if not, why not?  The audience of this particular article is adults and parents concerned with the schools rights for or against children.

The strategy that the author uses is examples and stories of other instances.  He uses a more relaxed style of writing and has a negative attitude towards the issue.  His style of writing was catchy and very interesting.  I enjoyed this style of writing better than a traditional style because, it was more interesting and intriguing.  This type of writing relates to readers better and is easier to fully understand.