Summary: The Coddling Of The American Mind

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George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt discuss to oversensitivity of college students in their article “The Coddling of the American Mind”. They focus their argument on how this oversensitivity came about, the harm of sheltering these kids from their sensitivities, and how schools can fix the problem. Lukianoff and Haidt are ineffective in the transition between their subtopics; however, they are very effective in their detailed examples and powerful diction.
In the article there are many subtitles for subtopics, yet these titles become confusing to the reader once they have begun to read the text. Their lack of clear subtopics can be linked to a lack of effective transitions between paragraphs. The authors made it a habit to just say their point in a paragraph and then move on. A good example of Lukianoff and Haidt doing this is in between paragraph 40 and 41. The authors go from discussing trigger warnings to magnification, labeling and microagressions with no transition to connect the two topics. As the reader reads through the long article until the end it seems to be just a bunch of different topics pieced together in one article. Other examples are all throughout the article between the …show more content…
The authors mad e it a habit to give a specific example or two for every main topic they discuss. They are very specific in their examples in the fact that they are very applicable to their argument and they give all of the details that are involved in the instances. One of the best examples is in paragraphs thirty-one through forty where Lukianoff and Haidt give six specific examples about trigger warnings. When they present this many examples they purposefully place them between points so that if the reader does not get the point the examples helps them understand. This is very effective in writing because it ensures the reader gets the point and it provides evidence to support the authors
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