Aubrey May

Gardner

Milky Jalapenos

1 November 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Bouillon, Bertrand. “Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) - causes, symptoms & treatment.”

Youtube. ​Youtube, 29 Feb. 2016. Web. 20 Oct. 2019.

This video by Bertrand Bouillon called, “Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) - causes,

symptoms & treatment.” on Youtube discusses generalized anxiety disorder and the symptoms,

thought processes, and how to get help. This source explains the information while drawing it all

out as the video progresses. This makes it easy to understand for visual and auditory learners.

The purpose of this video is to educate students or anyone interested. From start to beginning it

goes through all the steps of what GAD is, the symptoms and the effects, for example, “Anxiety

causes impairment in everyday activities” (Bouillon). The author informs us how to diagnose,

“Diagnosing GAD is aided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”

(Bouillon). And lastly how it can be treated or where the audience can go to for help if necessary.

This Youtube video has very good ethos (Credibility). The account this clip came from is called

“Osmosis” which is described as, “Your Personal Learning Assistant for Health Sciences.”

Knowing it’s coming from a professional account it builds the audience’s trust for the creator.

Their logos (logic) is shown through the facts given throughout the video. The tone is serious

and educational, and he talks with real intent for the subject. It is also only a year old, so the

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information given is valid. While this is an academic source, it doesn’t have much pathos. This

could be problematic because some viewers might want more of an emotional connection rather

than facts. Fallacy?

I will use this in my essay because it gives a good summary of what GAD is, how it is found, the

effects of it and how to treat it. With my question “Does Generation Z have more anxiety than

previous generations and why?” This source could help with my “why” section as well as help

inform my readers the general idea of what anxiety is. I plan to use this as a statistical source and

combine it with a source that has more pathos in it to help strengthen it.

Chavis, Kelly. “Warning: Reading this on a smartphone may cause anxiety, researchers say.” ​Los

Angeles Times.​ Los Angeles Times. 7 June 2019. Web. 7 Oct. 2019.

The article written by Los Angeles Times called, “Warning: Reading this on a smartphone may

cause anxiety, researchers say.” The author, Kelly Chavis, talks about how social media and the

constant attention to smartphones is one of the main sources of anxiety. The data in this article

was mainly focused on middle schoolers and high schoolers. It gives several examples of

experiments shown in schools and how this might be a cause to anxiety. The author states the

opinions of high schoolers and parents on this issue as well as researchers.

Chavis does a good job of using logos (logic) with facts and numbers about the issue. And

Pathos can be seen by bringing in emotion through the students it’s affecting and the parents who

are seeing their kids go through it. The articles credibility (ethos) is shown through the studies

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from researchers as well as being apart of a well known and credible newspaper. One problem

with the article is, most of the information is coming from the Eastern states not the whole

country.

This source fits within my topic of anxiety increasing within millennials and why. I could use

this as one of my “whys” for this question. It gives good information about current students

which would be the millennials. I like that this article includes personal experiences as well as

studies and facts because I would like to use all of these things in my synthesis essay. This article

is easy to understand and relate to personally which could come to my convenience. This article

will be backed up with other sources about the social media issue to ensure it’s credibility.

De Recat, Olivia. Cartoon. ​New Yorker.​ The New Yorker Collection. 21 Jan. 2019. Web. 22 Oct.

2019.

This cartoon image by Olivia de Recat is a representation of how people with anxiety are always

overthinking every situation. The image is an alarm clock with a stressed out face on it and

surrounding the clock are speech bubbles saying, “Oh, you’re DEFINITELY gonna be late.”

“And what if there’s TRAFFIC??” “You know ​everyone’s​ going south at this hour.” “Have you

taken into account that you haven’t even SHOWERED yet??” and lastly, “You’re supposed to

bring the cups, remember? There’s a party going on right now with NO CUPS.” This person in

the cartoon is constantly thinking of all the worst possibilities and stressed out over things that

most people wouldn’t worry about.

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This cartoon is mostly pathos, meaning based on emotion by using language dramatically for

example, bolding and italicizing key words. Doing this, the viewer’s eyes go immediately to

those words and are curious. The ethos (credibility) can be seen through the publisher.

Considering it has been published in ​The New Yorker Cartoon Bank ​which is a well known

name, the artist receives credibility from that. This source lacks logos (logic) which could make

this cartoon an anecdotal fallacy because it is based on personal experience not facts or data.

I like this cartoon. To me, it is very relatable. I plan to use this cartoon with my multimedia

source. The video I chose is completely based on logos and ethos so I plan to combine it with my

cartoon considering it is mostly pathos so I can get all the views for my reader. When the video

mentions how most people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder get overwhelmed in situations

where it is not needed, I will put in my cartoon to correlate the two sources.

PIORE, ADAM. “Generation Z Gets to Work.” ​Newsweek Global,​ vol. 172, no. 19, June 2019,

p. 22. ​EBSCOhost​,

search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=136936631&site=pov-live.

This article by Adam Piore, “Generation Z Gets to Work.” was published in the ​Newsweek

Global ​on June 19, 2019. It talks about some reasons as to why the Z Generation has an

increased amount of mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. A big reason the author

mentions is money, when people graduate college, they have tons of student debt and all of the

other pressures of making it in this society. The article also relates the Z Generation to Millenials

by informing the audience that, if people went to college they were guaranteed a job whereas

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now all those that go to college aren’t guaranteed a job and the market is much harder to break

into. Although it also speaks of the advantages that Generation Z has from seeing earlier

mistakes and being the first,“Digital natives.”

The article does a good job of stating facts and statistics which builds up it’s logos (logic). The

article is dated in the current year 2019 which makes it more reliable. It is also from a safe

database which builds the credibility (ethos) of the author and article. The source doesn’t have a

lot of pathos it is more based on information about the Z Generation, it doesn’t get emotional. A

problem with this article is, it uses personal experiences which could come across as an

anecdotal fallacy which is using personal experience rather than evidence. The tone used in this

article is, formal but gets more conversational with the personal experiences.

I plan to use this source for the statistics of growth in anxiety and also for the reasons why the Z

Generation has the increase of mental disorders. I think this article is good too because it tells the

audience that through the anxiety there are also positives to the stress. I like the different things

mentioned and it has a lot of information that could be useful for my question, “Why does the Z

Generation have more anxiety than previous generations?” This article is reliable and will be a

good source because of the experiences as well as the use of logos and ethos.

Donohue, Mary. “How to get along with Boomers, GenXers and Millennials.” ​Youtube.

Youtube, 13 Dec. 2016. Web. 24 Oct. 2019.

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This Ted Talk by Mary Donohue published on December 13, 2016 called, “How to get along

with Boomers, GenXers and Millennials” talks about the difference between the different

generations spanning from the Baby Boomers to the Z Generation. Her main point is that every

generation grew up with a different culture and this makes it difficult for them to relate to one

another. The Boomers are auditory learners because they had radio and newspapers. The

GenXers are visual learners because of television, Millenials are action based because

technology is based on action, and lastly, Gen Z was raised with technology and they prefer easy

and efficient. Because each of these generations differ, it makes it harder to work together in a

work environment. Donahue educates the audience how to work with different generations and

how they work most efficiently.

This video is based on pathos because it doesn’t state specific facts, she used emotion through

her tone and relating to the audience with stories. Donohue gives her presentation very

confidently which makes it seem like she knows what she is talking about. This adds to her

pathos and helps her ethos. Mary Donohue’s ethos or credibility is given through her

sophisticated look and for being on a well known program, Ted Talks. Logos is the least present

because she doesn’t quote specific facts. This could be an anecdotal fallacy considering it is

mostly based on others personal experiences. Her purpose is to inform the audience about the

differences in the generations and how to get along with each generation.

I plan to use this source as a section of the different viewpoints from critics, such as how each

generation is seen. Since this video talks about how other generations see the Z generation, it

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helps get a different perspective. The Boomers and the Z Generation are what I am comparing in

my essay so I can use evidence from this Ted Talk to mention the differences and how everyone

can work together. I will mention this in my essay then refute against it with my claim or with

another source.