She was so excited to meet me for the first time. Not to brag, but I was the first big purchase she had made completely on her own. That honeymoon phase is something I’ll never forget: she wouldn’t stop showing me off to her friends, she cranked up the volume of every noise I made just because she loved the sound. I would sing nonstop all day with new notifications and messages from her groups of friends. That phase died…
I began my surface-level editing by using the search tool to find all of the places where I use commas. When I write, whether it be nonfiction or fiction, I tend to use a lot of commas. I identified each comma I came across as either introductory, comma splice, or a serial comma. If I could not classify the comma into one of the three categories, I looked at whether or not I needed it. I either deleted it, changed…
For my pre-writing activity this time, I chose to just answer the questions provided in our project’s document. It was effective in getting me to analyze all the parts that could be included in my essay. I think the prompted questions were very helpful in allowing me to explore all the different routes I could go with my essay. By answering all of them, I identified what areas were strongest and should be included in the essay. I could also…
I found annotating with the “chunking” method to be very useful in categorizing information so you can easily find it again when doing a later assignment. For example, when you write an essay about the topic later, you can easily find where there is evidence for you to reference. It is also an easy way to simplify the structure of the essay. However, I don’t feel like this method is very engaging for the reader. The most engagement you are…
The rapid advancement of technology is drastically changing the way that young members of the current generation develop [Topic]. Constant use of technology is leading to isolation, which can progress into deeper mental health issues [Restriction]. Jean M. Twenge, an American psychology professor, addresses the fact that teens are spending more time alone on their phones rather than building physical relationships with the people around them [Exhibit]. This raises a concern because as teens isolate themselves more from the real…
Over the long fall weekend, I went on a three day camping trip in Acadia. I lost cell service about an hour into our ride up on Friday morning, and I did not get it back until our ride home on Sunday night. During this time I was unable to use my phone to connect to others even if I wanted to. Leading up to the trip, I was spending a lot of my days dealing with overwhelming drama from…
Turkle’s main argument in this TED talk is that as technology gets more advanced and as we begin to rely on it more, we expect more from it than we do real interactions. An example that Turkle mentions is when she discusses the story of a woman bonding with a robot. The woman had lost a child and she found comfort in talking to a robot that resembled a child (10:04). This shows Turkle’s argument in the fact that the…
Goodbye to the person who just did what she wanted without over-analyzing it first.
I think it was very difficult to condense my entire essay into a two minute podcast. The biggest challenge for me was determining what I wanted to include and what I didn’t want to include in the podcast. Even with the finished result, I still feel as if my podcast is incomplete, because I know that so much more is said in the actual essay. As for getting to know the program, I didn’t struggle much with it. I’d consider…
The global revision process was something that I had never done before this class, and I found it very useful. I found that it helped me to organize everything in my essay by dividing it into different sections: the introduction, the three different learning styles, and the conclusion. Next, I aimed for each section to include three things: a reference to Bain, a reference to Dweck, and a personal experience. Using this as a guideline was helpful in that I…
