#6 Four Words to Seem More Polite

In this article, the author tells some of his “tips” on how to seem or be more polite, and he tells that the main thing is empathy. In the first, he explains about his personal experience, how I conversation that was supposed to be 3 seconds, turned out to be 30 minutes because he showed a little empathy to the other lady. He also explains how many psychologists believe that empathy is essential to cooperate, problem solve and to human function in general. Also empathy is a general way of showing generosity and care. The author is worried that the world is losing its empathy and becoming selfish. Also he says that the reason we should be polite is to “boost our own social standing among our peers.”

Olga Khazan, the author of this article uses very informal language in order to connect with the readers. He doesn’t use slang words, but neither does he use hard vocabularies for the readers to have struggle while reading. This article was written to inform and to persuade the readers. The author uses empathy while talking about empathy to the readers. He also tries to inform on how to be more polite, and not only that, he tries to persuade the readers to feel more empathy to others. Because of the way he wrote, and the words he chose, it called the attention of the readers.