Rhetorical Analysis Of The Tethered Generation By Kathryn Tyler

Kathryn Tyler’s, The Tethered Generation suggests that the millennial generation has been so influenced by new technologies their entire lives, that it has made them less independent than their parents’ generation and more likely to hover over their children’s lives as “helicopter parents”. Tyler uses the story of Kate Achille to give readers an example specifically from a millenial in order to connect to the target audience. She also uses comparison and contrast, antithesis, argumentation, and a research study. Tyler intends to help give this generation and the companies that will be hiring this generation a better understanding of the role of technology in their lives and how it affects the way they think and work. Kathryn Tyler suggests that it will take a lot more than it used to in order to successfully transition the millennial generation into the workforce.
Kathryn Tyler uses many different rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, in order to help the reader fully understand her point. An example of this is when she connects the fact that the millennial generation is “tethered” to technology, to the issue with independence. The story of Kate Achille, which is similar to other young adults who grew up around …show more content…
Although, thorough, Tyler’s argument lacks evidence to support that previous generations did not have the same issues millennials have. She never used research proving that generation X, had higher productivity than millennials. This lack of support makes her argument less valid and takes away from some of the points she made. While technology may have caused a lack of independence and amplifies the occurrence of “helicopter parenting”, without more comparisons on other generations results from similar research Tyler’s argument is somewhat