For Friday 10/2
If you missed our Zoom today, please view the recording and post a summary in the Zoom summaries category.
- For Friday, letâs begin wrapping up our work with Essay 1, the second draft of which will be due in your Google Drive portfolios on Wed, October 21. Read and/or re-read the feedback you received for the draft you posted under Essay 1 Feedback and share here a paragraph or so of writing that describes the changes you intend to make to your draft: additions you might make, things you might delete, paragraphs you might put in a different place. Please be as detailed as possible in describing the changes youâll make and explaining why you want to make said changes. See if you can write 7-8 full sentences.
- As we began working on in the Zoom call today, we will be shifting from thinking about narrative writing (Essay 1) to thinking about analytic and thetic (thesis-based) writing as we advance toward Essay 2. To that end, we talked about what a thesis statement is and two different types of thesesâdefinition based theses and critical/theoretical theses.I donât want you to worry about having your own thesis for Essay 2 yet⌠That will come much later. What I want you to focus on for now is understanding what other writersâ theses are in the texts we are reading. To that end, using the Zoom call as a reference, what I want you to share below under #2 are
2A) what you think Jerald Blockâs thesis is in âIssues for DSM-V: Internet Addictionââand what kind of thesis this is;
2B) your own brief summary of how Christopher Lane responds to Jerald Blockâs thesis in his text titled âAddicted to Addictionââdoes he agree? Disagree? How/why?; and
2C) in light of these readings, whether you consider yourself to be an internet addictâand why you do or donât think you are.