Significance

Activities

Answers to Analysis
Questions
A news article posted on
CNN.
The article is using data
and statistics to make their
point

Discussing
Convincing
Reporting
Proving

Direct Example to Prove Answers (quotes)

About 90 percent of U.S. kids ages 8 to 16 play video games, and they
spend about 13 hours a week doing so (more if you're a boy). Now a new
study suggests virtual violence in these games may make kids more
aggressive in real life.

The news article is using the studies done in this field to prove
what the studies have shown. Kids in both the U.S. and Japan who
reported playing lots of violent video games had more aggressive
behavior months later than their peers who did not, according to the
study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics.

Identities

Informer
A person with knowledge
in the field
A researcher

Relationships

The relationship between

the writer of the news
article and the reader is a
very formal relationship

The language used is a direct example of how the relationship is

portrayed.

Politics (social
goods)

The article is trying to

prove that playing violent
video games is a bad
activity to engage in.

Kids in both the U.S. and Japan who reported playing lots of violent
video games had more aggressive behavior months later than their peers
who did not, according to the study, which appears in the November
issue of the journal Pediatrics.

Connections

It connects aggression with

video games in general

Japanese children rated their own behavior in terms of physical

The language is very formal

This is a news article so it has to be very formal.

Sign Systems
and Knowledge

The researchers specifically tried to get to the root...

aggression, such as hitting, kicking or getting into fights with other kids;
the U.S. children rated themselves too, but the researchers took into
account reports from their peers and teachers as well.