Answer the following questions: 1. Audience: When we selected Gabler’s essay for

Answer the following questions:
1. Audience: When we selected Gabler’s essay for this textbook, we thought it was about a topic that college students would be interested in. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Why?
2. Purpose: What do you see as Gabler’s purpose in writing this essay?
3. Voice and tone: How would you describe Gabler’s tone in this essay?
4. Responsibility: How does Gabler’s use of Disney characters (paragraph 7) help or hurt his credibility?
5. Context, format, and genre: Because Gabler’s essay was originally published in a newspaper, it is fairly brief, as most newspaper articles are. How does that conciseness affect how Gabler presents his information? What additional information would you like to have? Why? How does Gabler use the conventions of an essay?
Critical thinking: the writer’s ideas and your personal response
6. Do you agree with Gabler that urban myths are the current version of “the most genuine form of folklore [traditional beliefs, myths, legends, and tales that are shared orally] we have” (paragraph 4)? Why or why not?
7. Gabler argues that urban myths require us to “suspend … disbelief in the face of logic” (paragraph 12). What instances can you think of in your own life where you have suspended your disbelief? How willingly do you suspend disbelief? Why?
Composing processes and knowledge of conventions: the writer’s strategies
8. What kind of evidence in Gabler’s essay do you find most convincing? The least convincing?
9. Gabler says that urban myths allow us each to become “a co-creator of the tales” (paragraph 13) and that they “permit us to become our own Stephen Kings, terrorizing ourselves” (paragraph 14). How effective is this cause and effect argument?