The essay I chose to read was “Entangling Roots: Online Gaming and the Effects On Their Players”. The first thing that drew me to this essay was that the author was from Champlain College, so why not read it? As a student at a college with a large game design program I am very glad to say that I am not addicted to video games. I found this to be such an interesting essay because this is an issue that is not so well known but now more than ever needs to be talked about on college campuses in the United States. Colleges spend so much time and money educating kids on the problems of drugs and alcohol in college but are the only addictive objects that are endangering they’re students? I’m not saying education on the dangers of drugs and alcohol isn’t important, but in this day and age gaming seems to be taking over the lives of children and adults all over the world more and more every year. Jeff Lessard made great points about the addictive traits of online gaming and his in-text quotations give his essay a lot of credibility. His opening sentences really helped grab my attention and introduced me to the problems he talks about later in his essay. Jeff took a subject that any college student can relate to and used great rhetorical techniques to engage the reader and persuade them to accept his point.
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