Both of the the essays illustrate a comical yet accurate portrayal of a typical college student or young professional. It tosses aside the hardworking, dedicated depiction that society has grown to expect and instead replaces that with a much more realistic version of a minimal effort skater. In the Internet Age Writing Syllabus passage, the author frequently attests to society’s reliance on social media. He uses humor in non-direct demeaning way towards our generations mass dependance on social media and how it has dulled down the way in which we communicate. In addition, it addresses the broken down language which is very pervasive in social media and demonstrates how it would be tought in the contemporary world. One bit I found to be particularly funny was the “passage” that warned against reading newspapers or books by a fire, pointing out the danger of the paper catching on fire. Another humorous part was the grading scale of this prospective course. From a 90-100 “A+”, to and “A-minus, minus, minus” for a 0-49, the grading scale points out the obvious laziness and sense of entitlement of today’s generation.

In the writing class assignments post, the author uses “real world” examples that apply to what I have come to know as the typical college student. The informality and even crude topic suggestions point out the informality of this suggested course. His witty use of humor in this post exposes many of the real life techniques and the real life extents college students will go to in order to get around different obstacles.

In all, both posts capture and expose trends and tendencies that or accompany, or plague today’s generation, depending on how you look at it. The style of humor in both bits was very effective.