GA11:Â One Paragraph Blog Post Comparing and Contrasting Your Three Sources
The purpose of this blog post is two-fold: First, you will introduce your sources to your audience (article title, author, publication title ). Second, you will compare and contrast the purpose and argument of each source in the context of your draft research question.
Here is a sample post written by Nicole Waite, who was student enrolled in another section of my college writing course:
MY SOURCES:
(1) Denhart, Chris. âHow the $1.2 Trillion College Debt is Crippling Students, Parents and the Economy.â Forbes 7 Aug. 2013. Forbes, Inc. Web.http://www.forbes/sites/specialfeatures/2013/08/07/how-the-college-debt-is-crippling-students-parents-and-the-economy
(2) Hiltonsmith, Robert, and Tamara Draut. âThe Great Cost Shift Continues: State Higher Education Funding After the Recession.â Demos 6 March 2014.
http://www.demos.org//publication/great-cost-shift-continues-state-higher-education-funding-after-recession
(3) Bidwell, Allie. âThe Rise in Tuition is Slowing, But College Still Costs More.â U.S. World & News Report 24 October 2013.http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/24/the- rise-in-tuition-is-slowing-but-college-still-costs-more
Each of my sources addresses the rising cost of tuition and fees that have occurred on a national level, as the result of budgetary cuts to education. Each also speaks to the fact that students are graduating with enormous debt because of loans that they take in order to pay for school. The tone of each of the pieces seems to be educational in that they are informing the reader about the crisis and why it exists. I feel that the audience for each of the articles are students/parents and anyone that is affected by the economy; the latter because student debt has a direct effect on financial matters such as state budgeting, national interest rates, and tax burdens on the community.
The article written by Hiltonsmith and Draut entitled âThe Great Cost Shift Continues: State Higher Education Funding After the Recessionâ (DEMOS2014) is longer and more formal than the other two pieces; it includes both statistics and charts. Bidwellâs article, âThe Rise in Tuition is Slowing, But College Still Costs More.â (U.S. World & News Report 2013) explains how and why the tuition rate has been increasing even though tuition rates have slackened, while Denhartâs article âHow the $1.2 Trillion College Debt is Crippling Students, Parents and the Economyâ (FORBES 2013) focuses more on paying for college and the consequences of taking out loans. But each of the writings have similar summations â the rising cost of attending a public college, or private institution for that matter, has become so unaffordable that students are amassing huge [loan] debt in order to pay for their higher education.
GA11:
Scientific American, Elena Malykhina, Fact or fiction?: Video games are the future of education
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-video-games-are-the-future-of-education/
CNN, Sarah Klein, Study: Too many video games may sap attention span
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/05/games.attention/
Library database, Skoric, Marko M; Teo, Linda Lay Ching; Neo, Rachel Lijie, Children and Video games: Addiction, engagement, and scholastic achievement
http://onesearch.cuny.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?frbrVersion=3&tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=TN_medline19624263&indx=1&recIds=TN_medline19624263&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=3&dscnt=0&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28CUNY_BEPRESS%29%2Cscope%3A%28%22NY%22%29%2Cscope%3A%28AL%29%2Cprimo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&dstmp=1430262568890&srt=rank&mode=Basic&&dum=true&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=Children%20and%20Video%20Games%3A%20Addiction%2C%20Engagement%2C%20and%20Scholastic%20Achievement&vid=ny
These three sources tells about the impact of video games on children. Video games have a negative impact on children from elementary schools since their grades tend to lower in their class subjects depending on how much time they spend on video games. The CNN news article says that children who spend more than two hours a day will have attention problems during a long activity as they have surveyed the school’s teachers. The scholarly article says that based on a survey of children from ages 8-12 with addiction to video games had a negatively impact on school performance. However The Scientific American magazine says that video games can help students to improve academic performance. Based on a research, playing video games can improve the children’s academic skills and classroom behaviors, it can train the child’s brain to develop skill in math, reading and writing practices.
My Sources
1) Sherk, James. âHow Higher Minimum Wage For Fast-Food Worker Can Affect Pricesâ Heritage Reports. Web; http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/09/higher-fast-food-wages-higher-fast-food-prices
2) Covert, Bryce. âHere’s How Fast Food Could Handle a $15 Minimum Wage Without Cutting Jobsâ Think Progress, January 23, 2015. Web http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/23/3615049/fast-food-15-minimum-wage/
Both of the sources I chose debate over the recent issue of minimum-wage for fast-food workers. The first source takes more of a federal position on the matter and states that if the minimum wage for fast-food workers was raised to $15, the prices of the food would increase and, therefore, the demand for fast-food in America would decrease. The article also states that the food companies could not afford to this increase because the highest percentage of their profits are spent on paying the workers and various supplies. The second source, on the other hand, takes the people’s stand point and argues that the companies could, in fact, afford to pay their workers more. According to the article, the increase in the wage would only be a small percentage of these major food corporations’ profits. Also increasing the worker’s pay would increase the employment rate and make the turnover less likely to happen. Theoretically, the author is arguing that the researchers who came to the conclusion that paying these workers more money would cause the companies to suffer, are not looking at the full picture of potential benefits.
We are allowed to use three sources from online. Wikipedia and other websites make it very easy to get information about why I like to read or write. I found that it was difficult to find newspaper sources about this topic. Magazines were also difficult to find any information. Thankfully my girlfriend has a very large library and I have been able to look through several books to try to find citations I would like to use in my essay.