In the editorial "Posture affects standing, and not just the physical kind" by Jane E. Brody, she uses personal experience and evidence …show more content…
A piece of evidence used is in her third paragraph which says “The average head weighs about 10 to 12 pounds. When we bend our necks forward 60 degrees, as we do to use our phones, the effective stress on our neck increases to 60 pounds — the weight of about five gallons of paint. When Mr. August started treating patients more than 30 years ago, he says he saw plenty of “dowagers' humps, where the upper back had frozen into a forward curve, in grandmothers and great-grandmothers.” Now he says he's seeing the same stoop in teenagers.” Using this evidence actually shows something actually happening in the real world, and something that us smartphone users have possibly experienced or seen. She also uses an everyday experience of us interacting with these objects which has its consequence in “while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time…reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.” Using this type of information gives her an informative essay where most of us could relate due to her use of everyday life, and experiences we probably