I. Outlining
1. From the eight reasons below, choose the three you think you can develop best.
2. For each reason, quickly list people, feelings, places, moods, school activities, anecdotes, personal experiences, historical events, news, books stories, plays, songs, poems, comic books, movies, quotes, comparisons, etc. that would help you explain your reason better. This will become your EVIDENCE. (10 min.)
Google is making us shallow because3. Now consider your list of reasons. Which is the strongest? Rearrange the order of the reasons if necessary.
1. it is too quick
2. it is too convenient
3. it affects our memory retention
4. it overwhelms us with too much information
5. it presents information superficially, as small bits
6. it takes us to sites full of ads
7. it makes us anti-social
8. it encourages multi-tasking
4. Share your strongest reason and the connected evidence with your group to create a group outline for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" using THIS FORM. Responses HERE
II. Opening Paragraphs
1. Reading "Advanced Paragraphing" (17).
2. As a group, write an Opening Paragraph for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" using THIS FORM. (You may want to write the answers in MSWord first). Responses HERE.
3. Print the Persuasion Map HERE. Write the word "Thesis" over where it says "Introduction."
Homework for the 5:45 class, lab for the 2:15 class:
1. Using the Persuasion Map, write an outline of your response to "Hype." Show it to your tutor or to any tutor in the Writing Center (B-200) and revise it according to his or her feedback. This will be piece #4 of your Print Portfolio.
2. Complete these three CUNY Test tutorials from John Jay College of Criminal Justice:
- Parts of an introductory paragraph
- Identifying different types of opening hooks
- Components of an introductory paragraph
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Two Satisfactory Summaries of "Hype":
In "Hype," Kalle Lasn shows how advertisements are contaminating the minds of American citizens. He begins the article by stating that the estimated number of ads people see on a daily basis goes up to billions. Everywhere people look, there is an ad, and it is spreading with the mass amount of new technology we have today. These ads are distracting people from the beauty of life with overflowing promotions and product messages. Lasn talks about how kids are watching Pepsi and Snicker ads at school, distracting them from learning/ Towards the end of the passage, Lasn says he used to hear symphonies play in his head, but now all he hears are commercial theme songs.
In "Hype," by Kalle Lasn, the author explains that people are being overwhelmed with too many advertisements. Lasn points out that from the moment we get up to the moment we go to bed, that is all we see! Lasn states that we are hit with about three thousand marketing messages per day by radio, billboards, and television. According to Lasn, there is nothing we can really do to get away from this; everyone is exposed.
