Thursday, November 20, 2014

In Class Lab: Rough Draft Workshop

Rough Draft Workshop
1.      My topic is the extreme rise in technology and how it has affected society today.
2.      Technology was my larger subject area. 
3.      In the beginning I had a hard time at first narrowing my topic down.  It was such a broad topic, but now I have been able to narrow it down to the obsession with social networking and how people cannot seem to stay off their phones.
4.      I searched peer reviewed articles along with collecting information from a couple books.  I was able to get a hold of some useful information for my sources to help back up my argument. 
5.      There are a lot of mixed answers when it comes to how people feel about technology and the rapid rise that has begun.  There are also people that are in the middle and feel there are both pros and cons that attribute to technology.
Main areas leading towards this argument is the statistics of students’ grades and the loss of communication between one another.  Students in school today are beginning to see a decrease in their grades because of the addiction with feeling they need to be on social media sites at all times, as well as texting, and etc.  Everywhere you go there seems to be no such thing as face to face communication anymore.  For example, take a look around when you go out to dinner.  Count how many people are actually conversing with one another rather than be wrapped up in their cell phones.
There isn’t one specific group involved in the talk of technology today.  You have today’s generation as well as family members and friends of theirs that join in on the conversation and give their input.

6.      I have yet to start my draft yet so I’m not sure how many words there are yet.  I just completed my review of literature and hope to now have the chance to get started on my draft for Tuesday’s workshop.

No comments:

Post a Comment