Won't You Be My Friendster?

Paragraph 1- Gives an example using anarration of personal experience to give an idea of what she is going to argue about. Also he uses description.
Paragraph 2 & 3-Uses description, uses examples. Using Classification by talking about all social sites and what they can do.
Paragraph 4 & 5-Again using a personal experience to support her claim, using description as she describes that experience
Paragraph 6- Uses Persuasive and Argument to state her position that networks foster connectiion action within physical community. Uses a narrative personal experience to support it.
Paragraph 7-Uses Cause and Effect. Compare and Contrast. How the social ites can be good thing but also a bad thing?

The essay Won't you be my Friendster, is a good example of an argumentative essay because it gives her claims and argues it to the fullest. She gives her claim, and throughout the whole essay she gives reasons for why she thinks this. It stays on topic, and gives personal experience and examples. A good argumentative essay should have all these qualities. The writer should know exactly what he or she is talking about and should convince the reader to do the same. In this essay, she argues that social websites aren't always bad. She begins with the fact that she herself was a skeptic. She believed social websites were a waste of time, but that after she tried it she saw it had its good things too. She goes on to give about 3 or 4 good things about social websites, and connects it to her own personal life. This right here gives the reader insight. It's always good to support your claim with personal experiences, it's really hard to argue them. Another good thing about her essay is at the end she reminds the readers the bad things about social websites. She knows they aren't always good and states a few things that are wrong. All the while using it to support her claim. She never gets off topic, always stays with her claim.