Part 1: MLA Citation
Raza, Nayeema. “What Single People Are Starting to Realize.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 18 May 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/coronavirus-dating.html.
Part 2: Summary
| Main Idea: People are craving to be in a relationship, buy are getting confused along the way thanks to covid norms. |
| Supporting Detail: Because people are required to be socially distant with others, they’re switching to dating websites. According to Raza, the amount of users on dating sites such as OkCupid and Hinge skyrocketed. | Supporting Detail: Meeting up with someone that you’re virtually talking to is dangerous, but that hasn’t stopped some from trying. An unidentified single man believes, inviting the person to his apartment is best even if its sketchy. | Supporting Detail: Thanks to Covid, many relationship seekers have a lot of time to search. Raza thinks this will make people be selective and move slower before becoming couples. Talks about the other persons virus’s status are coming up more often then not. |
In “What Single People Are Starting To Realize”, Nayeema Raza, a filmmaker and writer, acknowledges that people are craving to be in a relationship, buy are getting confused along the way thanks to covid norms. Because people are required to be socially distant with others, they’re switching to dating websites. According to Raza, the amount of users on dating sites such as OkCupid and Hinge skyrocketed. Meeting up with someone that you’re virtually talking to is dangerous, but that hasn’t stopped some from trying. An unidentified single man believes, inviting the person to his apartment is best even if its sketchy. It’s important to note that before and during the pandemic, people rushed through so many possible partners only to pick none because of what experts call “Cognitive Overload.” Many relationship seekers realized, they have lots of time to search. Raza thinks this will make people be more selective and move slower before becoming couples post covid. Their are even talks about the other persons virus’s status coming up more often then not, for those hoping to meet up after this crisis.
OK — you have found an interesting op-ed. But you need to get in that Raza puts herself in the article. Remember it’s an opinion piece, so there is a personal aspect. Raza tells of her own feelings of being alone yet panicking that she was not in relationship. WHAT ARE A FEW KEY POINTS FROM HER OWN PERSONAL STORY?
AND — There are key phrases that should be supporting details in your summary. She refers to a phrase “Relationship accelerator.” Good that you got in the key phrase “cognitive overload!”
LOOKING AHEAD to Part 4, I would get this point into the Notable Quotable Part 4: research from the Kinsey Institute suggests that while everyone is lonelier now, single people are the loneliest. — That’s a surprising research fact!