Eng 103, Spring 2007, Essid
Paper One
Topic: Choose
a technology you use for communicating when you are not there to talk
with someone. Examples include handwritten letters, cell phone, instant
messenger, e-mail, photo-sharing Web sites, multi-player online games,
a Web page you have created, or blog to which you contribute.
Your task is to explore
the following assertion and make a claim:
"This technology
influences how I communicate."
Audience:
Me and your
editing group.
Format: at least 900 words (approx. three
pages typed, double spaced), plus:
- A handwritten
diary (yes, written out by hand) of how you are using the technology
during a seven-day period. Turn this in with your paper, and keep
it neat--buy a small notebook that is comfortable to use. Keep notes
about how you use the technology, what problems or opportunities
it creates, how it is different from other ways of communicating,
how it influences other ways of communicating.
- As you write this, isolate
the biggest influence that the technology has and state why that's
so. You'll have a working thesis for the paper (Use
AN pp. 21 and 26-27 to help you).
In the formal typed paper:
- Quickly state the thesis that
comes out of your reflecting on what you write in your diary
- Note how keeping an old-fashioned
diary influenced how you think about the subject of this paper
- Consider Baron's point that all
literacy technologies experience stages of development and influence.
At which point is the one you chose?
- Include
a title page with your name and the title of the essay. The title
should be a descriptive one that sums up the idea of the paper's
thesis
- Make
margins no larger than 1.25" and type size no larger than 12
points in Time or Times New Roman fonts. You do not need to provide
a bibliography for this essay.
Grammar,
Style, Usage:Writer's Web on
Thesis Statements , "What
is Analysis?" , and pages under punctuation
(esp. comma, semicolon, and colon) and sentence
structure.
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