http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278510/Depression-Its-just-new-trendy-illness.html
This is an article from the Daily Mail, it covers the topic of depression and is very unsuccessful at convincing me that depression is just a trend and there is no real meaning behind it. This piece starts off with an analogy that seems all too forced to come off well. This sense of not connecting with the reader sets forth an underlining tone for the rest of the piece. As we continue through the piece, the writer begins to divide its audience, angering those who believe in the seriousness of depression, and continuing to anger the middle class by stating depression is their issue. Then says that they believe in the existence of depression but that it does not exist in the lower class, it’s called poverty. If we look into the piece at a local revision level there are a few of mistakes and wrong words used throughout the piece to add to the fact that the piece is poorly conceived and constructed. But, I think one of the biggest components that makes this piece of work unbearable for me to read is the author’s word choice. She chooses to use many words that invoke emotions into the reader but they seem to come off as too harsh, and her attempts to justify her words seem to hit flat and only fuel the fire. The ending seems to completely revoke her ideas that she had already brought up of depression existing, and there is one question that she does not answer, if losses of loved ones, divorce, not feeling loved, or anything of this nature cannot invoke depression, what can? Overall, I believe the thing that irks me the most about this paper is how blatantly wrong she is and how her words are not consistently supporting her argument in an effort to not seem so harsh.
