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Hermes Luna

Instructor McCann

English 1302 203

20 February 2022

The Elements of Writing Analytically

Reading articles and identifying the different elements of such informative pieces is

sometimes difficult to notice. One can read and find the correct context and information that

holds the key to unlock the factors of tone, audience, evidence, and even authority. After reading

the article, “Google Home vs Alexa: Two Simple User Experience Design Gestures That

Delighted a Female User”, one can identify the different types of elements that went into the

writing. While providing an analysis and explanation on how some technological companies

materialize women, she provides a path to the audience, with a tone, using evidence, and all

while providing her authority as a writer.

Johna Paolino establishes her authority as she mentions in her title, “Two Simple User

Experience Design Gestures That Delighted a Female User” (Paolino et al. 272). With this half

of her title an authority figure can be seen, due to her proving to the audience that she happened

to be experienced in the field as a “Female User” of the products. Also, at the bottom of page

272 we can see that she is a product designer and writes about user experiences and designs

(Paolino et al. 272). An analysis then emerges in the article, specifically the question that drives

this, is then mentioned right after the introduction. “Was it how he was asking? Was it that she

was female? Was I jealous?” (Paolino et al. 273).

To continue, identifying the audience of the article requires the reader to notice the

context and who she wants to direct the information to. Therefore, the audience in this case is
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female users as she mentions it along the writing. Especially saying the example of “Alexa” and

the way a “female is objectified”. Meanwhile, implying a formal tone with a sense of concern for

women as they are being portrayed as inferior, through these technological companies. We see

this with her personal attempt at drawing the two smart speakers which are Amazon Echo and

Google Home. The evidence used throughout is her examples of Amazon Echo having to be

called by “Alexa” rather than being named just “Echo”. Meanwhile, she brings life to the robot

speaking as if she had a conscious mind and represented that of all women. This argument is

strong, however adding more points to her statement could solidify the whole argument. A point

such as, how the option of switching the name of the talking robot is available and how that still

wouldn’t be enough to excuse the fact that they have an option for it being named “Alexa” could

prove very useful. Moreover, as the redear notices all the elements put to play in this article, it

leads to the realization of a better understanding for the overall writing.

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Work Cited

Paolini, Johna. Everyone’s an Author with Readings. New York, W. W. Norton & Company,

2017, pp. 272-275.