A Rhetorical Analysis Of Blink By Malcolm Gladwell

An ineffective device used by Gladwell was his use of repetition of evidence and failure to acknowledge counterexamples by forcing the reader into thinking that Gladwell’s theory is the only one possible to be correct. The lack of acknowledgment towards counterexamples thrusts the audience into thinking that Gladwell’s opinion is the only viable one. “Philip Norman, who wrote the Beatles biography”, “nonstop show, hour after hour”, “Here is John Lennon”, and “playing all night long” are examples of repetition of evidence because the author already established that the

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, he defines an outlier as someone who does something out of the ordinary or differently. The author is very credible and has a few awards for writing, “Outliers.” We should listen to Gladwell because some of his information is knowledgeable and can help with everyday life. His purpose is to teach us about the many rules that are being described in the book. The main intended audience would have to be the world and how he displays his values to millions of people. Malcolm Gladwell discusses how someone’s IQ that is in the upper one hundreds is the same as someone’s IQ in the lower one hundreds. Malcolm Gladwell has a lot of credibility and is a reliable source for information. He went to school for a

To start with, Gladwell uses ethos, an appeal to ethics, as a device to effectively explain how

This paper analyzes and responds to Malcolm Gladwell’s The New Yorker article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” concluding that though Gladwell provides a decent context for his argument, it is ultimately made less effective because of its comparisons and underlying assumptions. This paper shows how Gladwell’s comparison of contemporary social movements to those of a prior non-digital age works against his main argument by drawing an unfair parallel in which the two systems of comparison are far too different to draw any binary conclusions. The purpose of this paper is to consider how rhetoric, including the use of ethos and pathos, can influence how readers think about issues of social and political justice.

Insomuch as Gladwell has attempted a unified theory of communication the aforementioned ideas are better suited for the personalized perspective. Even though Gladwell’s theory is predicated on the inclusion of culture qua nationalistic or territorial, cultural understanding, he does embed the realization of the "personal" when he states that, “Each of us has his or her own distinct personality” (204).

Gladwell uses strong anecdotes and studies to prove all the claims he presents throughout his book. He explains he evidence well and ties everything back to the point he is trying to prove. This helps further understand Gladwell’s argument. But, even though Gladwell uses multiple anecdotes and studies to support his claims, the problem that is faced is that he merely suggests his sources are correct but never

Subject: In the Outliers, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, talks about how and why people are successful. It shows that hard work and dedication aren’t the only thing a person needs to be successful. In the first chapter of the book, Gladwell investigates one of Canada’s best hockey teams. He shows that nearly two thirds of the team were born in the first four months of the year, which is due to the fact that as children these players have always been the oldest on the team giving them a physical advantage. This small advantage had a domino effect because they were better as young children because of their physical dominance. Then they were on better teams,

Rhetorical Analysis After reading “10,000 Hours”, by Malcolm Gladwell, I see some flaws in the writing of his argument. At the beginning, he talks about it being obvious that there is such a thing as innate talent but by the end he disagrees with that. There is a difference between practicing and being born with talent and all he really covers is practicing and being great from the practicing. I believe there are two ways to be successful: practice and being born with talent.

Few people have the ability to look at someone and tell exactly what they are thinking, and whether or not they are lying. Author Malcolm Gladwell, uses the stories of famous psychologist Paul Ekman and others gifted with the ability to "read people well" to argue that people can be naturally born with this ability, gradually develop it, or learn it purposefully later on. In his essay, "The Naked Face", Gladwell suggests that there could be more to this skill than what meets the eye through complex appeals to logos, pathos, ethos.

Gladwell uses many rhetorical modes to prove his central claim, whether they be examples, comparing and contrasting two success stories, and etc, but out of all of them the one that Gladwell uses the most is process analysis. By using this mode Gladwell brings out the best points of his arguments over and over. In every chapter Gladwell uses this mode to break down the story in such as way that the reader understands how the central claim fits into that specific success story. The other modes are also well used but this one dominants over all of them as it is used to describe everything from the success of a hockey team to Gladwell’s own success, thus making process analysis the

Why is it that we think the way we do; how do we deduce what a person is like before we even talk to them? Blink, written by psychologist Malcolm Gladwell explains the answers to these question, and provides much more. He educates readers about snap judgements, thin slicing, the power of rapid cognition, etc. All the different stories- ranging from marriage compatibility to war to food- in this book come together to support the bigger picture while also picking varying points on the subject of rapid cognition. A passage about a musical revolution exemplifies the topic of rapid cognition having a huge influence on every individual’s life, additionally making the reader self-aware of the functions of their mind.

As illustrated in the text, the first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately. The second task of Blink is to answer when should we trust our instincts, and when should we be wary of them? The third and most important task of this book is to convince you that our

Whilst reading this scenario you may have noticed that you were constantly presented with situations where your mind was forced to jump to a set of conclusions and make a decision in the space of about two seconds. Blink is a book about those two seconds, about thinking that happens in the blink of an eye, thinking that Gladwell refers to as rapid cognition. You’re probably thinking that ‘rapid cognition’ is just a fancy way of saying instinct or intuition, so you may argue then that this book is simply about that; intuition. Whilst you may not be wrong, you’re not right either. In fact, intuition doesn’t even appear in the book. Gladwell refers to intuition as that gut feeling, emotional,

Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, once said, “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” In his book, Blink, Malcolm Gladwell sets out to prove that the real difference between good and bad decision making has more to do with our abilities as humans to focus on select, particular details about a situation as opposed to the sheer amount of information we process, but are the tactics utilized by Gladwell in his novel “good” psychology? It is of my belief that Gladwell’s work is psychology due to the amount of outside studies, research, and applications Gladwell incorporates into his book in addition to the fact that it attempts to follow the eight critical-thinking guidelines as per Psychology and the DSM 5.

“Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant – in the blink of an eye – that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. The book deals with the smallest components of our everyday lives—the content and origin of those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress.