Summary and Analysis essay (4 paragraphs) due at 11 PM
Summary & Analysis Essay
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Assignment Description:The essay requires you to produce a solid one paragraph summary and one paragraph of analysis. Please also include a brief introductory paragraph and a brief conclusion. Use these paragraphs to introduce the reading by presenting the author/title in the correct MLA or APA format as well as the big important ideas and issues that pertain to the essay. The conclusion should restate some of the big ideas and end with a powerful and profound statement. Submit through the assignment portal on Canvas
Getting Started:Each Summary & Analysis essay will contain a one paragraph introduction and well as a one paragraph conclusion along with one paragraph of summary and one paragraph of analysis. Total of four paragraphs!
First Paragraph:
Provide a brief introductory paragraph that presents the author and title and a few major points about the writing. Statements made in introductory paragraphs should be broad and sweeping. Deliver a thesis statement or claim and support with big important reasons.
2nd Paragraph: Summary
Systematically move through the beginning, middle, and end of the writing and summarize the major points
Present factual information, dont offer opinion
Use the authors last name…this is called an attributive tag
Use action verbs such as: describes, explores, examines, highlights, challenges, presents, compares, contradictsWrite in present tense whenever possible
The sparse use of quotes
3rd Paragraph: Analysis
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the text by providing analysis. Of course there is some overlap but in general, address and present points of analysis that consider the following:
What is the major message or thrust of the writing?
Why is the work important?
What strategies does the author use to support position?
Are there any autobiographical elements in the writing?
Does the author incorporate the use of other scholarly sources?
4th Paragraph
Create a brief conclusion that restates the thesis and supporting reasons. Deliver bold and sweeping statements. End with a profound statement and call for action!
Summary & Analysis Essay
Assignment Description:The essay requires you to produce a solid one paragraph summary and one paragraph of analysis. Please also include a brief introductory paragraph and a brief conclusion. Use these paragraphs to introduce the reading by presenting the author/title in the correct MLA or APA format as well as the big important ideas and issues that pertain to the essay. The conclusion should restate some of the big ideas and end with a powerful and profound statement. Submit through the assignment portal on Canvas
Getting Started:Each Summary & Analysis essay will contain a one paragraph introduction and well as a one paragraph conclusion along with one paragraph of summary and one paragraph of analysis. Total of four paragraphs!
First Paragraph:
Provide a brief introductory paragraph that presents the author and title and a few major points about the writing. Statements made in introductory paragraphs should be broad and sweeping. Deliver a thesis statement or claim and support with big important reasons.
2nd Paragraph: Summary
Systematically move through the beginning, middle, and end of the writing and summarize the major points
Present factual information, dont offer opinion
Use the authors last name…this is called an attributive tag
Use action verbs such as: describes, explores, examines, highlights, challenges, presents, compares, contradictsWrite in present tense whenever possible
The sparse use of quotes
3rd Paragraph: Analysis
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the text by providing analysis. Of course there is some overlap but in general, address and present points of analysis that consider the following:
What is the major message or thrust of the writing?
Why is the work important?
What strategies does the author use to support position?
Are there any autobiographical elements in the writing?
Does the author incorporate the use of other scholarly sources?
4th Paragraph
Create a brief conclusion that restates the thesis and supporting reasons. Deliver bold and sweeping statements. End with a profound statement and call for action! Copyright of Indian Journal of Health & Wellbeing is the property of Indian Association of
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Op-Ed: Go ahead: Waste time on the Internet.
Los Angeles high school students use computers in 2015. (Los Angeles Times)
By KENNETH GOLDSMITH
AUG. 12, 2016
5 AM
Is the Internet a waste of time? Its not so easy to say. When I click around news sites, am I wasting
time because I should be working instead? What if Ive spent hours working, and I need a break?
Am I wasting time if I watch cat videos, but not if I read a magazine story about the Iran nuclear
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deal? Am I wasting time if I look up the latest presidential polling numbers, but not if Im
communicating with an old friend on Facebook?
The notion that the Internet is bad for you seems premised on the idea that the Internet is one
thing a monolith. In reality its a befuddling mix of the stupid and the sublime, a shattered,
contradictory, and fragmented medium. Internet detractors seem to miss this simple fact, which is
why so many of their criticisms disintegrate under observation.
The way Internet pundits tell it, youd think we stare for three hours at clickbait those articles
with hypersensational headlines the way we once sat down and watched three hours of cartoons
on Saturday morning TV. But most of us dont do any one thing on the Internet. Instead, we do
many things, some of it frivolous, some of it heavy. Our time spent in front of the computer is a
mixed time, a time that reflects our desires as opposed to the time spent sitting in front of the
television where we were fed shows we didnt necessarily enjoy. TV gave us few choices. Many of us
truly did feel like we wasted our time as our parents so often chided us rotting away in front
of the TV.
I keep reading on screens that in the age of screens weve lost our ability to concentrate, that
weve become distracted. But when I look around me and see people riveted to their devices, I
notice a great wealth of concentration, focus, and engagement.
And I keep reading on the Internet that the Internet has made us antisocial, that weve lost the
ability to have a conversation. But when I see people with their devices, what I see is people
communicating with one another: texting, chatting, IMing. And I have to wonder, in what way is
this not social? A conversation broken up into short bursts and quick emoticons is still a
conversation. Watch someones face while theyre in the midst of a rapid-fire text message
exchange: its full of emotion anticipation, laughter, affect.
The Internet has been accused of making us shallow. Were skimming, not reading. We lack the
ability to engage deeply with a subject anymore. Thats both true and not true: we skim and browse
certain types of content, and read others carefully. Were not all using our devices the same way.
Looking over the shoulders of people absorbed in their devices on the subway, I see many people
12/4/2019 Go ahead: Waste time on the Internet. – Los Angeles Times
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reading newspapers and books and many others playing Candy Crush. Sometimes someone will be
glancing at a newspaper one moment and playing a game the next.
The other night, I walked into the living room and my wife was glued to her iPad, reading
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Hours later, when I headed to bed, she hadnt moved
an inch, still transfixed by this 171-year-old narrative on her 21st-century device. When I said good
night, she didnt even look up.
Internet critics tell us time and again that our brains are being rewired; Im not so sure thats a bad
thing. Every new media requires new ways of thinking. Wouldnt it be strange if in the midst of this
digital revolution we were still expected to use our brains in the same way we read books or
watched TV?
The resistance to the Internet shouldnt surprise us: Cultural reactionaries defending the status
quo have been around as long as media has. Marshall McLuhan tells us that television was written
off by people invested in literature as merely mass entertainment just as the printed book was
met with the same skepticism in the 16th century by scholastic philosophers. McLuhan says that
the vested interests of acquired knowledge and conventional wisdom have always been by-passed
and engulfed by new media . . . The student of media soon comes to expect the new media of any
period whatever to be classed as pseudo by those who have acquired the patterns of earlier media,
whatever they may happen to be.
The resistance to the Internet shouldn’t surprise us: Cultural reactionaries defending the
status quo have been around as long as media has.
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12/4/2019 Go ahead: Waste time on the Internet. – Los Angeles Times
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Im told that our children are most at risk, that the excessive use of computers has led our kids to
view the real world as fake. But Im not so sure that even I can distinguish real from fake. How
is my life on Facebook any less real than what happens in my day-to-day life? In fact, much of
what does happen in my day-to-day life comes through Facebook work opportunities, invitations
to dinner parties, and even the topics I discuss at those dinner parties.
After reading one of those hysterical devices are ruining your child articles, my sister-in-law
decided to take action. She imposed a system whereby, after dinner, the children were to turn in
their devices computers, smartphones, and tablets. They could check them out over the course
of the evening, but only if they could prove they needed them for educational purposes. Upon
confiscating my nephews cell phone one Friday night, she asked him on Saturday morning, What
plans do you have with your friends today? None, he responded. You took away my phone.
On a vacation, after a full day of outdoor activities that included seeing the Grand Canyon and
hiking, my friend and her family settled into the hotel for the evening. Her 12-year-old daughter is
a fan of preteen goth girl crafting videos on YouTube, where she learns how to bedazzle black skull
T-shirts and make perfectly ripped punk leggings. That evening, the girl selected some of her
favorite videos to share with her mother. After agreeing to watch a few, her mother grew impatient.
This is nice, but I dont want to spend the whole night clicking around. The daughter responded
indignantly that she wasnt just clicking around. She was connecting with a community of girls
her own age who shared similar interests.
Her mother was forced to reconsider her premise that her daughter was just wasting time on the
Internet; instead, she was fully engaged, fostering an aesthetic, feeding her imagination, indulging
in her creative proclivities, and hanging out with her friends, all from the comfort of a remote hotel
room perched on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Many Internet critics yearn for a return to solitude and introspection, quiet places far removed
from the noises of our devices. But those places, away from the rabble, are starting to remind me of
gated communities.
12/4/2019 Go ahead: Waste time on the Internet. – Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-goldsmith-wasting-time-internet-20160812-snap-story.html 5/7
Kenneth Goldsmith is a poet who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. This essay was
adapted from his new book, Wasting Time on the Internet.
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