For Monday, Nov. 8, please read Mim Udovitch's "A Secret Society of the Starving" in the Presence book, page 556.
Pick one of the "non-scholarly" sources the author uses and write a 200-word memo about its effectiveness. Does it do a good job of supporting what the author is trying to get across? If so, how? If not, why?
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I think one of the non-scholarly sources that the author uses is the pro-ana websites that girls use online to talk to others like them that are bulimic or anorexic. Even though this source is un-scholarly,I think that it does a good job getting his point across about about how many girls suffer from eating disorders and don't think it's a bad thing. This website gives good evidence supporting that these girls are not in their right mind when he talks about it, because the website has a creed that's called Ana creed which talks about the only control they have is what they eat. The girls act like it's a good thing to purge your body and have self-control with eating which is usually not at all for them. Using this website, it sites direct quotes and information that the girls read and feel every day. I think it was a good source to use.
ReplyDeleteOne of the non-scholarly sources is the pro-ED sites. The source does a good job at getting the authors point across because it is actual people talking and supporting each other with the same disorder. The girls support each other in being bulimic or anorexic through the site. It shows how dangerous the disorder is, and is extremely more dangerous for a person when they have others constantly supporting them.
ReplyDeleteThe pro-ana site is not a "scholarly" text but it still gets the point across. Instead of some guy in some office at some university writing a book about eating disorders, this source is more like an interview. It is the words, opinions, and feelings of the people on the site. It is their testimonial. Because it is the actual words of the victims of this disease, that alone gives it validation.
ReplyDeleteOne of the non scholarly sources the author uses to get the point across are the pro-anorexia sites but to be specific the Live-Journal post on the web site. To use such an informal source to relay the idea as a whole is very effective. By using something that people of that age group are exposed to on an everyday basis it emphasizes that messages like this are not only a serious threat to children of that age group but are also capable of being either sent, or witnessed by this demographic with very little effort. With sites such as this hosting information about pro anorexia/bulimia, it is possible that information such as this could potentially, if not already, find its way on to other social websites such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter where it could be seen on a much larger scale.
ReplyDeleteThe unscholarly source that the author used the most were the pro-ana sites. I believe that that would be a good source to begin your research because it allows you to understand what you are researching, especially because they are people. It is sad to hear of their pain and how deeply these disorders are ingrained into their psyche and their personalities. If I was going to write a paper on a group of people I was not part of I would like to do this research before hand because otherwise I would only be going on assumptions and hearsay. Also by doing this research you would be able to use examples of what these people go through and how they express it like the author did in their article.
ReplyDeleteThe unscholarly source that he ends up using the most are the pro-anorexia sites. They seem as they were the basic information that everyone should know and none of the more in detail or the depth of which they should have for a paper like this. It seems as though these sites could get out and would make things much worse than they are currently and that doesnt make the source a very reliable one.
ReplyDeletei think that one of the sites that was non-scholarly was the pro-ana site. i think that this site is non-scholarly because the information that came from this site was general information that oyu could find easily by looking it up on google. the author does a very good job of using this information to get her point across and it is useful in the paper, but i do think that you could find the same information in other places such as books or on the internet.
ReplyDeleteThe pro-anna site is the closest you will get to even remotely understand what these girls go through every day and why they do it. It is not a technically scholarly source but it really is reliable. this is really serious and hearing it from the victums can pain a clear picture fo us to understand.
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