In my opinion, although we’ve only done it twice now the two different peer reviews were completely different experiences. The first time around my partner and I did our best to go into detail on each other’s papers but we didn’t want to be rude or go in-depth on our comments. However, after seeing our professor’s comments and some of the ideas we gave each other I believe we realized that we’re better off helping ourselves as much as possible….
Social media has caused a vast array of problems for my generation. Although much of social media has been used for good, even people that would normally be nice in person might take advantage of the anonymity of social media to be cruel. Cyberbullying has become a growing problem with the advances of technology and with phones falling into the hands of children younger and younger it leads to more issues. In my middle school we had several different school-wide…
I agree with Lammot in that the first draft is more so about expressing ideas rather than what you’ve actually produced. Lammot explained the importance of revision in her own work and how most of the writers she knows are the same way. The first draft is a place to let your mind roam, you have a topic or maybe the setting in mind but not yet a coherent story to tell. After you get your ideas on paper you…
David Foster Wallace and his commencement speech have many different ideas. David dove deep into his own experiences as an adult and how life would shortly be changing into a routine for the class of 2005 now that they had graduated college. Wallace’s first point is that “A liberal arts education is not so much about filling you up with knowledge as it is about teaching you how to think (Wallace,2).” This relates to me thanks to my education thus…
Bloom’s article I found particularly interesting. Not only was it shorter to fit the attention span of a kid in college it was very well written. His paragraphs were structured very well to flow smoothly and convey his three main points. Empathy is biased and has a very narrow frame, people can only care for themselves and those around them let alone the billions of people in the world. As Bloom stated “spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at,…
“With Megan’s story in mind and Konnikova’s examples, social media has allowed humans to be hateful and cruel without interacting in person. This makes it much easier for people to bully online and in Megan’s case spread hate.” I believe that my thesis statement is well worded. I refer to both texts and make a clear argument which can be argued for or against. It is a very long sentence but it sounds good and worked well in my paper. …
