Reading popular fiction like Twilight gives us the same amount of knowledge and benefits as reading the classics like Pride and Prejudice.
Reading popular fiction like Harry Potter or Twilight helps increase the desire to read. As seen in Dr. Ruth Cox Clark’s piece “Older Teens Are Serious About Their Series: Forensic Mysteries, Graphic Novels, Horror, Supernatural, and Chick Lit Series” we see that book series, such as manga, are bring teens back into the literary world. Manga is “a Japanese genre of cartoons, comic books, and animated films, typically having a science fiction or fantasy theme and sometimes including violent or sexually explicit material” (New Oxford American Dictionary). Clark, associate professor at East Carolina University, finds that “the ready availability of graphically formatted, serial reading materials, such as the multitude of manga series now being published, has brought many teenage boys – and girls- back to reading, some of them resistant readers for years.” Even something as basic as comics can bring teens who haven’t been reading back into the good graces of reading. This is wonderful because it is helping these students do better in school.
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The claim and reason are very easy to spot since they are color coded for easy detection. I think this claim is very clearly stated and easily arguable. The reason provides a good because statement for the claim. The evidence for the reason is pretty good as well. Perhaps for the actual draft, you may want to find another source to add to your one piece of evidence. I like how you defined Manga, because not many people know what that is.
I just wanted to clarify something. Manga are just comic books. Films are called anime. If youre going to stick with the topic, you might consider talking about what students can learn from some of the most popular titles.
I think that while any reading is good reading, I don't necessarily agree that Twilight has the same importance as the Classics. Twilight is great for entertainment purposes, but its language is casual and it is an easy read for adolescents. The Classics are challenging. They force us to learn knew vocabulary and understand ideas in a historical context. Additionally, many of their concepts aren't as abstract and fantastical as though in books like twilight and thus more relatable to our lives. The Classics introduce people to formal sentence structures and language that isn't as common in modern day reading. Furthermore, I think if people gave the classics a chance, they could be equally as interesting as these books from popular culture.
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