Reflection for Short Paper 1.2

The most insightful information from the two new sections dealt with enhancing Wallace’s stance that McCain was wooing young voters, and specifically how Wallace used this to appeal to young readers of RS. This added to my initial interpretation by giving me more examples and quotes to support the claims I was making in my former interpretation.
One of the major things I noticed was how in different scenarios Wallace would refer to the audience as “we”, “you”, or “they” depending on who he was appealing to. Many times, he would say “we” to give readers the sense that he was on the reader’s side, he was trying to aid them in their understanding rather than persuade them in one way or the other. In light of our group discussions last week I was focused more on Wallace’s use of language and his general call to the audience, I used this to reinforce that this essay is biased, but not in the way to swing the voters, but in the way that Wallace is writing from his unique, biased perspective.
My arguments that McCain and Wallace had the same end goal, to excite young audiences into learning about politics, was the influenced by the addition of these new sections. However, I let go of the cynicism in my voice of Short Paper 1.1 by discussing the frame in which Wallace was writing, rather than the perspective from which I was writing. This helped in discerning the true purpose, rather than clouding the discussion with too much of my personal animosity.

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