Why Swearing Makes You Tough Analysis

Article Three Analysis: “Why Swearing Makes You Stronger” Alan Burdick’s article from The New Yorker explores the areas of strength behind swearing and the possible effects of swearing in the media and in political campaigns on pain tolerance. The article’s audience is the general public and people interested in increasing pain tolerance. The purpose of the article is to communicate information and research of qualified professionals. Another purpose is to inform the general public of the positive effect of swearing on pain tolerance. Overall the article was written to inform readers of one way to tolerate pain. The genre of the article is a mixture of a science article and a report. The article creates a mixing of genres by taking scientific evidence, hypotheses, and current political examples to transmit the information to the reader. This genre could have been produced by investigating possible answers to a political campaign sparked question presented in the text, “Will profanity lose its pain-relieving magic along the way?” Scientific evidence was introduced to prove that profanity provides people with an increased pain tolerance. The writing style of Burdick in this article is an amalgamation of an expository writing style, illustrated in the …show more content…
The article addresses the general public and psychologists, stroking the interests of the general public, psychologists, and anyone currently concealing a secret. The purpose of the article is to communicate scientific results and to inform readers about secrets and the science behind them. The purpose of the article is demonstrated when the results and arguments of Columbia Business School professor, Michael Slepian, were shared. The purpose of the article is to introduce theories about secrets and prove, or better yet, disprove them using scientific