This article written by Jennifer Kahn, published on the New York Times, is about emotional intelligence. Kahn begins the article by sharing a story of a research he made with kindergarten students about troubles they have at home. The kindergarten students talk about how they feel when their parents yell at them, and how that affects them. Through the research, they realize that the emotional intelligence is crucial for students to perform well in school, it affects their decision and time management. As a conclusion, Kahn states that schools need to focus more in the emotional health of their students, providing help for those who are going through though situations at home and socially at school, so that they can do better at school.
This article uses a lot of exemplum. It uses examples of researches about the subject and of students that have gone through a lot of emotional stress during their elementary through high school years. By using these examples, the reader becomes engaged to the subject of the article, because they realize that it could happen to their children, friends or even themselves. Anacoluthon is another rhetorical device that is used a lot throughout the article. An example of when Kahn uses this is, ''That’s a new thing: they always used to blame somebody else. For them to take responsibility — it’s huge." Kahn begins the sentence talking about the "new thing" and then uses the dash to change the whole structure of the sentence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/can-emotional-intelligence-be-taught.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=education
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