1. Why does Gottlieb begin with the story of her visit to Dr. Neil Clark Warren's office rather than her central question: can cold, hard science be a facilitator of romance?
2. Compare eHarmony.com with Perfectmatch.com, Chemistry.com, Match.com, and others. What does each promise on the first page? What does each claim to distinguish it from other similar online dating sites?
3. Who is Gottlieb's audience? How do you know? Provide support from the essay.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that Gottieb's audience is people who are trying to find a person that is compatable to them online. It is probably people that have had trouble finding relationships in real life, and just need that extra little boost to talk to more people that they would be intrested in.
For example on page 201 it talks about how people that "most people I know don't join online dating sites to be patient. Impatience with real world dating in fact, is precisely what drives many singles to the fast paced digital meat market."
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ReplyDeleteGottlieb's audience is widespread. They are the single people from all over the world who lack the time or the patience to find a long term mate the old-fashioned way. They are the one's who are looking to join eHarmony or have joined eHarmony and are dissatisfied. She quote's the owner of eHarmony Dr Neil Warren, who states," We have massive amounts of data! Twelve thousand new people a day taking a 436-item questionair!" Then she states,"But, how useful is this sort of data for single people like me?" This statement points directly at who her audience is. Her disatisfaction with eHarmony's match-making results for her, ends up with her questioning the abilities of eHarmony's research data. She states,"Was this the best science could do?" Her talk with vice-president of research, Galen Buckwalter about this ended in her contemplating her own thought, "Was eHarmony suggesting that I overlook something as basic as romantic chemistry?" This thought led to a direct quote from Buckwalter stating,"We're trying to find out if we can predict physical chemistry with the same degree of certainty..." which, leads to an understanding that her eHarmony audience is also disatisfied.
Gottlieb audience is a variety of people. She mostly aims to attract people who are losing the game of love. She wants to open everyone’s mind to the opportunity that online dating services has. “ ‘Let me tell you why you’re such a difficult match,’…explaining why I and my prospective match were such outliers”(201) This is point in narrowing the audience down to people who are not doing well with being matched. Each person if different and has differing aspects that make them who they are. Not every person is going to be matched with a ton of people.
ReplyDelete1. Gottileb starts the essay with her going into Neil Warren's office to start with a personal connection to the story. It got readers into the story. You don't want to just start an essay with facts or else the reader will not be interested in the essay. It helped make the reader want to find out about how the dating sites work and what each site is looking for. It also concluded with her never finding a man so it doesn't just end with facts either.
ReplyDelete1.Gottlieb begins her story with a visit to Dr. Neil Clark Warren because it shows a little background. Also it is a good way to introduce a man who works for e-Harmony. Also Gottlieb probably doesn’t want to start off with cold hard facts, it is better to pull the reader in. So Gottlieb introduces the man who works for e-Harmony, it shows some facts but also it shows her own personal experience in the matter, helping people to relate to her.
ReplyDelete1. Gottlieb begins with her essay with her visit to Dr. Neil Clark Warren’s office because it provides a bit of background on her and the story in general. Instead of immediately speaking about science and romance she tries to draw her readers in with a more personal story. As well, it introduces Dr. Neil Clark Warren to the audience in a different way. I believe that this beginning allows the reader to understand the author’s connection with the ultimate questions she is posing in this essay and so it becomes a more personal informative essay.
ReplyDeleteThe author starts with a story of her trip to Dr. Neil Clark Warren’s office instead of her central question for a few reasons. One of the major ones is that starting with a personal story, instead of having facts right away, makes the piece more intriguing to potential readers. Most people would rather read a story than a bunch of facts strung together so it draws more people in. Another reason is that it makes the essay more personable, and gives readers a sense of where the author is coming from, and why they would be interested in the piece. Overall, using a story to open an informative essay may be a good choice if used correctly.
ReplyDeleteGottlieb's audience are people who are looking for a soulmate. They have no patience to wait and find someone right for them by them selves.I know because people that are taken are not going to visit dating websites. In the essay it says that eHarmony uses scientfic based matching. This insures that they match is more accurate. By showing that lazy people would rather take test to find a soulmate rather than let time take over.
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ReplyDeleteGottieb's audience is people all over the country who have trouble finding relationships normally so they have to go to an external source to find someone. They are kind of impatient with the real world dating, and it said in the essay that the reason why people use eharmony was because they want a faster paced style of dating.
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ReplyDeleteA good introduction to an essay is a short story that is relevant to the topic. Many times these stories will be examples, like Gottlieb's. These are good ways of grabbing the reader's attention. Informative essay are already boring to read. If Gottleib had started out with the central question, "can cold, hard science be a facilitator of romance?" and then went on to explain it, it would be very bland.
1. In the essay How Do I Love Thee? Gottlieb began with the story about when she was visiting Dr. Neil Clark Warren’s office because that was the way for her to hook the readers. By starting with this story it made me want to know more about what she was in the office for, what the man was going to help her with. I think that she didn’t start the essay with the central question because later on in the essay you find out that she was just giving information about both ideas. She did not really stick up for one side of her essay she gave information from both sides, eHarmony.com and Chemistry.com which allows the reader believe whatever they want to believe.
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ReplyDeleteI think that Gottliebs audience is single people who are trying to find someone. People who maybe are insecure or shy are a big part of the audience because its easier to find someone online than it is to go to a bar or dance and have to approach someone. Its also probably for people who have been hurt, dumped, or had anytime of bad relationship. On page 205 it states "twelve thousand new people a day taking a 436- item questionnaire! Ultimately, our dream is to have the biggest group of relationship psychologists in the country.
3. Gotteib’s audience can be anyone who is looking to find a mate. People have such busy lives now a days so they find going online to find someone takes a lot less time out of there day than to go on a date. I think people who are insecure or have trouble talking with others in person go online to dating sites to find someone with common interests. They find their love with personalities rather than just looks and attraction. One example from the book is on page 201 when she says “impatience with real-world dating, in fact, is precisely what drives many singles to the fast-paced digital meat market.” This quote is saying people who join online dating sites are impatient singles who are not willing to wait for love to come to them.
ReplyDeleteThe audience are those who want to find a compatible mate, but are having troubles doing so. She includes many quotes about the ways the matching program works and how to deal when you are impatient. She aims at those beginning to get frustrated with their love life and want to find things greater than friendship.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jenna that his audience is for the people looking for compatibility with another person online. I also believe the online websites were made for the people who have had trouble getting out and meeting people in the world. Like on page 202 when he says "the science behind this has been proven for long term romantic compatibility". This also allows the people to trust this website becasue they will use this site knowing that they have a very good chance of meeting their feauture wife or husband or longtime boyfriend and girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteeHarmony.com is an online dating site that focuses on similarities of people to match them to potential partners that promises. Chemistry.com is a dating site that focuses on some ones personality traits to find someone’s potential partners. Both eHarmony and Chemistry.com promise you a long- term romantic compatibility for you with the partners found for you on the site. At eHarmony they say what distinguish them from the other online dating sites is that they look for similarities as a bias of a relationship while other sites don’t. Chemistry.com says they are different from others since they look for personality traits that go well together while other sites look for different things.
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1)Gottlieb begins the essay with her visit to Dr. Neil Clark Warren’s office to gradually draw the reader into the essay. By beginning with a short story, she establishes what the rest of the essay will be about, as well as establish an important resource that she will be using; Warren. By saving the subject of the essay for later, the author gives important background information that will be elaborated on later in the writing. Also, by holding off the main question, Gottlieb can provide a useful anecdote that will make the story more personal.
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