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#Rhetorical Analysis
For experience not income: Rhetorical Strategies in
Halperin's " No pay? Many interns say, no problem"
Not every paid internship will attract everyone: An interesting debate among many
people after it become a big topic in the newspaper. Jennifer Halperin the internship
coordinator at Columbia College Chicago, and Money College's internship inside, wrote No
pay? Many interns say no problem" published in 2010 in the Atlantic Media, and she wrote
about the perspective of the growth of unpaid internships, surprisingly paid internship doesnt
always attract the most candidates. In the article the author promotes unpaid internships.
Halperin begins building her credibility with the personal facts and the interviews for
different perspective, and successfully emotional appeals.

In her article, Halperin first mention about the article from the "New York Times"
about the growth of unpaid internships that has spurred an interesting debate among many
people and then sets the stage by describing a specific scenario of her receiving a queries
from media outlets and other organizations and businesses seeking for interns, and then she
outlines the caution of the internships opportunity that most of these opportunities are unpaid,
offering (or sometimes requiring) college credit in exchange for the experience. Halperin
continues by discussing of the reasons that unpaid internship are more beneficial that the paid
intern does not attracted candidates as much as they suppose to. And lastly, lack of intern pay
doesn't seem to dissuade students from applying to many of these internships, especially ones

that offer the chance to gain useful professional skills and experience. Halperin use the
interviews of her with the students from different universities to support in her article and
wrote about some pro and con of the unpaid internships.

Throughout her piece, Halperin uses many sources that strengthen her credibility and
appeal to ethos, as well as build her promoted of unpaid internships. These sources include,
"A production assistants for Dr. Oz Show, Hannah Ferdinand" who did five internships while
in college and "Brittany Harris, who interned at NBC, CBS and Kurtis Productions in
Chicago". Citing these sources boosts Halperin's credibility by showing that she has done her
homework by research and provides facts and information, as well as internships expert
experience to support her claim. She also uses personal examples from her own life basis to
introduce and support the article, which shows that she has first-hand experiences during her
everyday basis.

Adding to her ethos appeals, Halperin uses strong appeals to logos, with facts and
logical progression of idea but not clearly on the statistics mention in the article. She points
out facts about her work as the internship coordinator and the distribution of unpaid
internships. "Employees of the workplace understand that you are working and learning for
free" it shows that you are serious about the career and are willing to put in the hard work
needed for the reward of a potential job. And the common fact that "Classes can only teach
you so much about how the real world operates, but nothing beats seeing how it works on a
day-to-day basis. Any type of experience in field is good, it builds your resume and portfolio"
these facts introduce and support the idea the idea that unpaid internships is more beneficial
than paid internships.

Along with strong logos appeals, Halperin effectively makes appeals to pathos in the
middle and last sections. Her body paragraph have emotionally-charged words and phrases
that makes the reader see the beneficial of unpaid internships; Halperin notes that "several
times each week, she receive queries from media outlets and organizations and businesses
seeking interns" as her work is the internship coordinator at Columbia college Chicago, and
Money College's internship insider. Her goals are to make the reader understand about unpaid
internships. Adding to this idea are words and phrases such as, "surprise" "frustration"
"suspicious" "reminded" (Halperin). All of these words evoke positive and negative emotions
about unpaid internships, which make the reader see the pro and con and understand the
beneficial of the unpaid internships. As the trainee who did unpaid internships and feels
"suspicious" and "frustrating" about the work she has done. And "surprise" with the results
she receives. These words help establish the worthwhile or fair that exists when students are
doing internships for free and they can are actually "gain" the real experience.

However, the end of the article lacks the same level effectiveness in the appeals to
logos. For example, Helperin article have not included statistics that logically support her
claim that it is a substantial and real problem about the unpaid internships. No reliable
sources or professional research involves. This reason makes the reader less likely to take the
author seriously. And damage the look of the article and author argument about the paid
internship.

Though Halperin begins the essay by effectively persuading her readers of the
beneficial of unpaid internships, she makes the reader understand her of how important and
value intern's time. Reader can see the pro and con in unpaid internship and paid internship;

however, her lack of information on statistics might makes the reader not sure about the
result.
This Rhetorical Analysis topic No pay? many internship say, no problem Analyze and
defined the essay about the overall purpose and intention of the writer using Ethos, Pathos
and Logos to break down the information and understand the writer idea.

# Argumentative Essay
Children should be taught about sex in school
In most of the country especially in Asia, Adult still remained sex education as a
peculiar term for children consumption. Some parent and educators are against sex education
in school because they believe that teaching of sex was considered inappropriate for children
especially primary school children. In fact adult should be concerned more about the sexual
abuse as they can see there is many cases that affect them report every day in worldwide
news. School is the place where almost every parent sends their children to study and learn
about education. Its the place where children spend most of their days gaining knowledge.
Sex education is important because it has become a part of human normal lives, it should not
be considered as taboo in the society. We can define sex education as an education about
human sexual anatomy, sexual intercourse, sexual reproduction and more aspects of human
sexual behavior (Science Daily, n. d). It is aimed to help people understand their sexual
development, and can also define as the physical act in which the sexual organs of two
people touch and which can result in a women having a baby (Oxford Dictionary, 2003, P.
709). There are parties that support sex education for children at school as they have the
strong evidence that sex education in primary school brings out the positive result. This essay
will cover up more about the importance of sex education for the younger generation.

Firstly, almost 48% of parents quoted that sex education was inappropriate (BBC
News, 2011). They think children who are under 13 years old should not be learning about
sex because it is not appropriate to teach them about this topic, the absence of sex education
is dangerous as youths today are sexually active. In another hand, they should understand that
teaching of sex education for children is intended to prevent them from sexual abuse. And it
will help students to understand the impact of sex. In the past, sexual abuses only affected
adult people. But in this generation everything become wilder, the condition has rapidly
changed. Similar stories but much more in a savage, the people who commit sexual abuse are
much more psycho they begin finding a new style of their crime. They discover children as
interesting objects for committing sexual abuse and feel very excited of them, as children are
more innocent and easier for them to persuade example: pretending to be kind and nice
person to make the children follow and attacked silently. Generally, the children who were
affected with sexual abuse have no knowledge about sex education. In sex education, children
will learn about appropriate and inappropriate touching on their body parts. After
understanding their own anatomy, children will be able to refuse and avoid the inappropriate
touching from adult and in case the incident has happened, the children will not feel
embarrassed to report adults. Other research from Teoh, 2012 show that most Malaysians
become sexually active by the age of 10-12 years old. This shows how important it is to
provide students a knowledge regarding sex on proper periods of time in order to prevent
them from learning about sex by themselves and being inflexible to acknowledge the actual
information.

Statistic from the world health organization and other international organization
(2012) reported that pregnancy and other childbirth related problem is the number one killer
of young women. It is important to keep all children who are teenage to educate about their

sexuality so they dont put themselves into trouble situation at a young age that can ruin their
future. And more important to teach students on the use and the cost of birth control as well
as the suitable health condition to use birth control method. Unwanted pregnancy is not the
only problem that can occur from unsafe sex, unprotected sex can cause more risk than you
think; contaminated with sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as HIV/AIDS. There are
more than 500,000 new sexually transmitted infections occurring among young people daily
worldwide and these disease you cant completely cure it. Every day about 5,753 people
contract HIV- about 240 every hour. In 2015, 1.1 million people died from AIDS- related
illnesses and around 150,000 were under the age of 15. Since the beginning of the pandemic,
78 million people have contracted HIV and 35 million have died of AIDS- related causes
(statistics: worldwide amfAR, the foundation for AIDS research). This statistics alone is
enough to show how important sex education in schools to save future generation from the
grasp of these deadly consequences that comes after unprotected sex.

In Asia, most of the country have a very strong believe due to religion and culture that
girls should learn to understand and see the benefits of virginity and stay abstinence until
marriage. Most cultural and religious upbringing makes discussing sex a taboo in families so
most of the teenage feel uncomfortable talking to their parent about this and starts finding
sources themselves. Abortion is illegal in Thailand and has been understood by many as
termination of unwanted pregnancy. Article 305 of Thai penal code states that abortion is
illegal except in cases when it is committed by a medical practitioner and is considered only
as necessary if the same endangers the health of the mother or when the pregnancy is due to
sexual offense such as rape and incest. It is undeniable that the issue needs great
consideration. As a country with Buddhism as its primary religion, abortion is not legally
accepted except in the aforementioned instances. They argued that life of the unborn fetus

should be protected as it is also given value as a human being. Allowing abortion in Thailand
according to them is a deviation from Thai traditional values and customs. They maintained
that abortion is a biggest sin you can never erase. On the other side, Feminists who support
abortion argued that abortion will eliminated gender discrimination in Thailand, as a law
allowing abortion will promote the right of women to choose. It will also reduce the high
rate of women seeking illegal abortion. Many women have lost their life in a process of
illegal abortion which is not worth it and totally opposite of what Buddha teach (Thailand,
Law).

In conclusion, however, it is argue that if students are not taught about sex in school,
they will eventually find their own way to learn to from different source; the internet is also
full of information. Talking to young people about sex will not encourage them to experiment
sexually. Instead, it will educate students on the danger of having unprotected sex and
measures to keep themselves safe. Although in some countries, sex education is still a
peculiar topic, people should begin to admit the fact that this is era, sex education should be
taught to the children in school.
This Argumentative / persuasive essay contained full information of the reason why
children should be taught about sex in school the reader will be persuade by reading the
full essay about the advantage and disadvantage of the issue.

#2 selections from blackboard post

#1
Samsung

Galaxy note7 in-flight ban

11September2016 at 1:48AM Emirates Airline has officialy announced

that Samsung Galaxy note7 will be ban on board due to the risk of batteries explosion
concerns, FAA has warns passenger against turning on or charging the note7 while
in flight or even stowing it in checked luggage. Lasted week Samsung suspened sales
of its latest flagship smartphone and announced a recall of 2.5 million units already
sold, after faulty batteries caused some handsets to explode during charging. Since
then, air safety agencies around the world have warned the airline, the airline that
has already banSamsung Galaxy note7 are included: Emirates airline, Singapore
airline, Thai airway international and its budget subsidiary Thai smile Airway,
Bangkok Airway and Australia Airline.
In my opinion, I think the technology in this generation has moved forward rapidly in
one year Samsung will release around 2-3 of the new version of their smartphone to
compete with the other company. Sometimes the product might not be ready but due
to the situation and marketing plan they have to launched it first, and this is what
come after. Small phone can create a big explosion which and put anybody life's in
danger when it should not turn out that way, the company should make sure the
products is well test before it they launched the products because its not worth it and
it's ruining the company reputation.

This post purpose is to shared the news report and current situation to my
classmate. Its about the phone that can explode due to the batteries problem
from one of the biggest company in phone industries.
#2

Over the weekend i have received forward news from my family and
friends warned me about the bombing that just occurred in 5
different cities in Thailand. 5 provinces in Thailand have hit by 11
bombing in less than a day, when i first saw the news I could not
believe about it because 11 bombing in less than 24hours and 5
difference city is unbelievable. I personally don't know anyone who's
in the situation or near the area when bombing happen, or injured
by this incidents. The government should be responsible for this
because they are in charge of take care and control of the country. I
am unfamiliar with the Thai politics so I'm not quite sure the reason

behind this terrorism and why would they bomb but i hope for the
justices for family or anyone who get effects.

This post is to discuss about the bombing incidents that happened in Thailand,
the explosion take place in many different location and cause anyone in danger.

#Eng102
The Relationship between Eating Disorders and Sociocultural Factors in Women
Abstract
In current society, the growing emphasis on thinness and its link to success is evident. This
has caused eating disorders to be more prevalent, especially among young women. It is argued by
many researchers that the risk of young women being diagnosed eating disorders is highly influenced
by sociocultural factors. To validate their studies, this research paper has analyzed the relationship
between eating disorders and three sociocultural factors, which are female sex roles, mass media and
social physique anxiety. The results of semi-structured interviews among ten young women were able
to prove that both female sex role and social physique anxiety, but not exposure to mass media,
wererelated to eating disorders and exacerbating risk factors. However, the nature of semi-structured
interviews, small sample size may have limited the results. Hence, more researches should be
conducted to larger demographics by psychiatric professionals in order to achieve a more accurate
result.

The Relationship between Eating Disorders and Sociocultural Factors in Women

In recent years, thinness of body has become a very important factor in defining beauty, in
which people relate with their happiness, success and significance. This has resulted in people being
more self-conscious and dissatisfied about their body shapes and sizes; hence, weight loss, especially
among women, has become one of the most popular issues. Subsequently, the prevalence of eating
disorders is growing every year and it is said to affect up to 24 million Americans and 70 million
individuals worldwide(The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, 2003). To define eating
disorders, they are psychological disorders characterized by abnormal disturbances of eating behavior
that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individuals
physical and mental health. Even though the exact causes of eating disorders are not clear, it is
claimed by many researchers that sociocultural factors highly influence ones risk of being diagnosed
with eating disorders. This research paper aims to find and discuss the relationship between eating
disorders and sociocultural factors: sex role identity, mass media and social physique anxiety in
women.
Literature Review
One of the characteristics of eating disorders is that it is more prevalent in female adolescents
and young women. According to the researcher,Cochrane (2005), eating disorders appear six to ten
times more in women than in men, which raises a question on the relationship between eating
disorders and sex role identity. Unlike biological gender, sex role identity is a concept derived from
cultural stereotype on whether certain attitude, behavior, and personality are considered feminine or
masculine(Hepp, Spindler, & Milos, 2005). Earlier researches on the relationship between eating
disorders and sociocultural factors in female adolescents claim that eating disorders are more
prevalent in women, primarily due to female sexuality and sex role identity that is derived by the
society, in which emphasizes excessively on slim body (Collins, 2004). However, this claim has not
always been aligned with other researchers and related studies. Cantrell and Elis (2001) claimed it
was rather womenwith masculine sex role who showed more symptoms of eating disorders, and

therefore it is the masculine sex role that makes women more vulnerable to eating disorders. In order
to find if these controversial claims were true, Murnen and Smolak (2002) conducted a meta-analysis
on twenty-six different researches done on the relationship between eating disorders and sex role
identity. This meta-analysis have found out that women diagnosed with eating disorders were highly
more influenced by theemphasis of femininity than normal women, and those women who displayed
masculinity were less affected by eating disorders.
Moreover, nowadays, society correlates success with physical attractiveness and the attractive
tend to benefit in social settings, such as parties or job interviews. Attractive women are perceived as
more sociable, happier and more successful than unattractive women(Watkins & Johnston, 2000). In
recent years, as gender equality is being enforced and the number of working women increase, many
women experience the pressure to be successful and independent, however, they are still under the
pressure to fit into the sex role the society demands (Sung, 2005). These sociocultural pressures make
women to believe that whether they choose to be working women, or housewives, or both, they can
only succeed in life and be happy if they are slim. White (2001) claims such obsession with a perfect,
slim body of these women, who are in pursuit of a superwoman-like future, can be interpreted as a
struggle for success, and that it leads to eating disorders. The research of Gerber (2005) also claims
likewise, in which it had found that women with the sex role identity influenced by the Superwoman
idealism are more likely to have eating disorder.
On the other hand, one other sociocultural factor that leads to the risk of eating disorders is
mass media. In this generation, mass media is one of the most powerful mediums that manipulate the
publics perception and opinions. It is mass media, more than school or family, that can effectively
deliver ideas and figures of women who are appraised by society, and numerous TV shows and
advertisements display slim women as respected, successful and happy individuals while obese
women are ignored and sneered at (Becker et al., 2002). Mass media not only aggressively promotes
leanness of body as the standard of female beauty and as a key to success, but also as a charm as a
woman, joy, happiness and a condition of love(Collins, 2004). As a result, more women, even those
with an average BMI, goes under dieting, and puts themselves at the risk of eating disorders (Vaughan

& Fouts, 2003). In 2002, Becker and his colleagues conducted a research on the influences of
television on eating behavior and habits of female adolescents. The results showed that after three
years of exposal to television, the rate of purge vomiting, which is a symptom of one of the most
common eating disorder named anorexia bulimia, rose from 0% to 11.3%(Becker et al., 2002).
Furthermore, according to (Vaughan & Fouts, 2003), reading magazines and the risk of eating
disorders are closely related, and overall decrease in consumption of mass media reduces abnormal
eating behavior and habits.
In addition, when women reach adolescence, they experience changes in their body that is
noticeable by others, and feel that the expectation of society towards their body evolve (Sung, 2005).
When they are unable to fulfill the social expectation that is enforced by mass media, family, friends
or others, female adolescents can lose self-confidence and feel insecure about their physique. Since
physical attractiveness is judged by others, they worry about the perception, that the others will
negatively evaluate their body. Such mentality is known to be social physique anxiety. Even though
social physique anxiety is related with self-esteem issues like body dissatisfaction or lack of
confidence, people with this anxiety factors other peoples standards and perception heavily in
evaluating their attractiveness and self-worth(Hart., Leary, & Rejeski, 1999). Researcher Melby(2005)
claims that more women aged between 18-34 showed signs of social physique anxiety than those aged
over 35, and explained this is because younger women tends to view themselves as an object. He also
claimed women with this anxiety were ashamed of their body, and showed obsessive behavior with
weight loss, in which is focused on achieving a slimmer look rather than healthier, fit body. People
with social physique anxiety shows similar but milder symptoms than the patients of eating disorders,
however, when these symptoms worsen, it is believed that it will eventually lead to eating
disorders(Hart., Leary, & Rejeski, 1999).
According to different researches and claims, even though individuals can respond differently
to the three main sociocultural factors this research paper focuses on, which are sex role identity, mass
media and social physique anxiety, it can be assumed that sociocultural factors highly influence eating
disorders and are exacerbating risk factors because they alter the understanding of attractiveness.

Hence, this research paper will analyze whether the symptoms vary depending on different sex role
identities, and how eating disorders and sociocultural factors are related.
Methods
To examine the correlation between the three sociocultural factors and eating disorders, the
research was conducted through a semi-structured interview with ten young female students of
Stamford International University. Semi-structured, one-to-one interview was chosen as the research
method to further investigate the participants responses in depth and get the story behind their
experiences, yet facilitate faster interviews that can be more easily analyzed and compared by asking
the same open-ended questions to all participants (Kvale 1996, Descombe 2007). This research
method is expected to deliver primary qualitative data that covers at both a factual and a meaningful
level (Kvale 1996).
A large group of young female students of Stamford International University were randomly
selected at the university campus, and among those students, we narrowed down to ten participants,
with ages ranging from 18 to 21. A total of ten participants were divided into two groups of five: (a)
currently struggling with eating disorder, or (b) never experienced eating disorder. The separation of
participants according to their diagnosis was for further analysis on whether female sex role identity,
heavy exposure to mass media and social physique anxiety tendencies were significantly distinct with
those with eating disorders or not. All the participants were interviewed in the course of one week,
and each interview lasted for fifteen to twenty minutes. The interview was placed in anenclosed
public area to initiate a less oppressive interview in a less distractive setting to gain truthful and
unbiased data (DiCicco-Bloom and Crabtree, 2006). Their responses were both recorded on a paper
and on a recorder to be revised.
Each question evaluated the participants behaviors, opinions, and values towardssex role
identity, mass media and social physique anxiety. Their responses acted as the indicator to measure
their sex role identity, level of mass media exposure and level of social physique anxiety tendencies.
The level of social physique anxiety tendencies was examined by questioning their satisfaction with

current body size, and how they believe other people view their body. On the other hand, the level of
mass media exposure on eating disorders was determined by the number of social media apps used
daily. Meanwhile, the sex role identity was evaluated by questions regarding the roles of female and
the relationship between beauty and achieving its success.
To avoid the interviewer inadvertently leading to biased results, questions directly mentioning
eating disorder, sex role identity, mass media and social physique anxiety were eliminated. This way,
we believe that the interview would not forcefully connect the sociocultural factors with eating
disorders, and instead have the interviewees provide the connections.
Results

Figure 1

The figure 1 is a Venn diagram that represents the number of participants who were affected
by three different categories: female sex role, mass media and social physique anxiety. All five
participants of Group (a) displayed female sex role identity and social physique anxiety tendencies.
These five participants claimed slim body for a woman is a crucial factor in being assessed as
beautiful. Therefore, they had a strong faith that slim body, hence the beauty, is an accelerant in
climbing up the social ladder, and a factor that leads to success in life, such as getting better jobs or
getting married to more successful partners, for women. In addition, Group (a) also showed social
physique anxiety tendencies, where they were constantly aware of how others view their body, and
associated negative words such as fat, big and unfit with the perspective of other people on their
body.
Meanwhile, all participants of Group (b) were not influenced by female sex role, nor
displayed social physique anxiety tendencies, Group (b) participants argued that beautiful women do
not necessarily benefit more or are advantageous in social settings and diligence and hard work are
what deliver success. Furthermore, two of Group (b) participants responded they have never really
considered how other people view their body when questioned How do you think people view your
body?, and the other three participants were confident with their body and believed others view their
body positively, either thin or fit.
On the other hand, unlike how all the participants of Group (a) responded similarly to female
sex role and social physique anxiety tendencies, they responded differently to exposure tomass media.
While eighty percent of Group (a) was under high exposure ofmass media, and used more than four
social media apps or websites daily, twenty percent of Group (a) was barely active on social media
apps or websites and spent less time on social media than Group (b) participants. Surprisingly, Group
(b), which was not influenced by both female sex role and social physique anxiety, was highly
exposed tomass media. Forty percent of Group (b) also used more than four social media apps or
websites daily, however the exposure tomass media did not lead to eating disorder. Another discovery
made during the research was that while all Group (a) participants, was either under high exposure or

not, found the body images promoted through mass media to be pressurizing and stressing, Group
(b) took it as a motivation to lose weight.
Discussion
The purpose of this research paper was to evaluate the relationship between eating disorders
and the three sociocultural factors, which are sex role identity, mass media and social physique
anxiety, and whether they were exacerbating risk factors as they alter the understanding of
attractiveness. The results of semi-structured interviews were able to prove that both female sex role
and social physique anxiety, but not exposure to mass media, wererelated to eating disorders and
exacerbating risk factors.
The findings on the relationship between eating disorders and female sex role aligned with the
studies of Murnen and Smolak (2002), where only Group (a), the participants with eating disorders,
displayed high importance in female sex role, and claimed that women, to be successful and fulfill
their female sex role, attractiveness, hence slim body, is highly desirable. Meanwhile, Group (b), who
argued diligence and hard work is more important in achieving such success, displayed more
masculine behavior and held less importance in female sex role. Hence, it can be assumed that the
pressure to fulfill evolved female sex roles of recent years is exacerbating risk factor of eating
disorders. Like the claim of Sung (2005), the female sex role has evolved, where women are under
pressure to be successful and independent working women, and yet, fulfill the traditional female sex
role of being a housewife. As Group (a) participants, hence young women with eating disorders have
a strong belief that attractive women benefit in all kinds of social settings, including getting a highincome occupation and being married to successful partners, they may unconsciously be obsessed in
being attractive, hence weight loss, even if it is through eating disorders.
In addition, only Group (a) portrayed social physique anxiety tendencies; these young women
with eating disorders were extremely self-conscious with their body, lacked confidence and believed
that other people viewed their body negatively. They assumed that people viewed them fat, unfit,
or big. Since Group (b) did not display any of these symptoms and only Group (a) was affected, it is

likely that social physique anxiety leads to eating disorders; young women may purposely or not,
utilize eating disorder as a way to lose weight, and to regain body confidence(Hart., Leary, & Rejeski,
1999).
On contrary, unlike the researches conducted by Becker et al. (2002) and Vaughan and Fouts
(2003), where they claimed the consumption of mass media increases abnormal eating behavior and
habits, the level of exposure to mass media did not seem to be a risk factor in causing eating disorders.
It was apparent from the interviews that regardless of eating disorders, both Group (a) and Group (b)
were consisted of participants who used more than four social media apps daily. Instead, the
difference between Group (a) and Group (b) regarding the influence of mass media was distinctive
when it came to their perspective towards it. While all the participants with eating disorders proposed
that the body images promoted by mass media were pressurizing, Group (b) argued it was
motivating. All the participants of this research were young women, and born in an era where
technologies and mass media has grown exponentially, in which exposure to mass media has become
a part of their life style. Consequently, it can be deduced that it is not the exposure to mass media that
leads to eating disorders, but ones interpretation towards the images they promote.
It is evident that female sex role and social physique anxiety is a leading risk factor to eating
disorders and exposure to mass media is inconclusive to the thesis. However, these results may have
been jeopardized by the nature of semi-structured interviews, and may not truly reflect the
participants responses due to the use of leading questions or the interviewers preconceived ideas
influencing what is and is not worth discussing (Gomm, 2004; Descombe, 2007; Jones, 1985).
Furthermore, the small sample size of this research may have narrowed the understanding and
analysis on the topic. Even though this study does offer a direction towards the relationship of eating
disorders and sociocultural factors, further research should be conducted with a larger sample size,
and with an interviewer with experienced background in psychiatry, to achieve a broader, more indepth and accurate results.

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This essay is about The Relationship between Eating Disorders and Sociocultural Factors in
Women which contained full information, citation and pictures to explain every detail of the
relationship between eating disorders and sociocultural.

#Self- reflection
In this English 103 class I have learn more knowledge about the different
style of how to write an essay. Example; Rhetorical Analysis and annotated
bibliography that will we focus in this upcoming week, these two style are new
things that am not familiar with and am learning from this class in this
semester. Now that we already learn about Rhetorical Analysis I feel more
confidence if I have to write it, the way of how I improved my writing is to read
through all the papers and rubric and follow the step when teacher handout the
papers in class. Stamford university has help me improved my English skill a lot
after I took English course that the university provided I feel more confident of
the knowledge and skill I have, not just English class that helps improved my
writing. Other course that the university provided such as; business studies,
marketing or even accounting is also helping me too, in these subject I will
always get to learn new word in English that sometimes it specific and we dont
use in daily basis. This is a good opportunities for me to study and since
Stamford Bangkok is an international university, the course and everything is
well provided in English, this way I can improved my skill better. My aspects of
my writing that still need improvement is how I arrange my sentence and the
way I organize the information of the essay, I feel like my essay still needs
improving on how I organize of the paragraph and make it most understandable,
the paragraphs need to be arrange and keep in the correct order. Example;
argumentative essay about why children should be taught about sex in school
the order of paragraph can be arrange better as in the essay I didnt separate
the topic properly, the third and fourth paragraph can separate more into
different paragraph to make it look more specific and focus on the detail. The
strongest piece of my writing in this portfolio is the The Relationship between

Eating Disorders and Sociocultural Factors in Women because its the final essay that I did in
English 102, this essay is the first one I completed in citation style and I never learn or write citation
essay before. The weakest difficult piece of writing in the portfolio is No pay? Many intern say, no
problem this essay become my weakness in this portfolio because the article I choose is an easy topic
but lacked of information for me to write or mention in my Rhetorical Analysis essay. There is no
information about any statistic or reliable sources in the article.