TECHNOLOGY HAS A HOLD ON WHO?

        It seems like there is absolutely NO ONE who isn't on a computer these days. It does affect the way we think, the way we live our everyday lives. From email to texting to paying ours bills on line
as well as connecting with loved ones and friends our lives are most certainly controlled by technology. The way I think, write an everyday note, from spelling to math I'm using some sort of technology.

        Our social media has taken over. From on-line college degrees, to banking, to the shopping, chatting, and even dating, our world and behavior is affected.  We no longer correspond as our ancesters did. We date online where they met in public and they wrote actual letters and did math in their heads, on paper (counting on their fingers) and actually walking into a store and shopping. My behaviour is such that I shop online and have it brought to me. Why fight the crowds? Waste gas and time?  But as we look at the entire picture it shows us what a technological society has become, as distant in personality and everyday connections as we are from the moon.

        There was actually a time when the phone rang everyone would jump up and say "I'll get it."  Now if a phone like 'this' would ring no one would want to answer it for they'd say,  "It's not for me, or they'd called my cellphone."

TRACKING US? ROAD BLOCKS (Filters) ALONE?

     Sometimes the frustration of just "googling" a subject makes me want to scream "Google, could you please let me put in more than two letters before you already start guessing what I am looking for?"

     I can deffinitely relate to the filter bubbles and the difference in the informational leads I recieve. I have noticed for instance, that if I enter a search word into google search engine from my laptop and then again from my IPhone I will recieve two totally different search pages.  I have also noticed that putting the information in on a different day will get me some different leads and the 'web' is filtering out some of the information that I was looking for or from some that I have posted.

     Now we come to tracking, or stalking I would say on the interent. I actually put in the words 'infrared heater' as a green heating source into my google search engine today. I have actually recieved (5) FIVE e-mails today on infrared heaters. SERIOUSLY??? Seriously, every arcticle that I seem to google provides me with dozens of 'pings' on similar products. Its a little overwhelming as to how much we are being 'observed" in today's society.

 

     This brings us now to the phrase "Is Anybody Out There"? The word of technology had definitely got us to the point of not directly connecting face-to-face anymore. I am most certainly alone-together. Due to a reccent personal loss, I haven't been 'out' much in the last year and every contact (with the exception of a few) has been through facebook, text or email. My daughters live in Colorado and Arizona and if it weren't for text I don't believe I would ever 'talk to them' for we only text.  Most every day, but still not a vocal conversation. All my friends/aquaintances are on facebook. And this may be a suprise but even my classes are 'on a computer'.  I felt this was best and at the time it was but now  am wondering if maybe some actual 'classroom' experience may benefit me which I am considering.

 

    Yes, today is a tracking, filtering, alone together kind of world....Hello??? HELLO??? Can you hear me now?

 

We are to do "WHAT'? for Assignment Three..

     I have an idea that our preparation for assignment three is centainly going to be detailed in techniques  teaching us to think and form the right paper based on the things we have learned thus far.

     1) We should focus on a central idea
     2)  We need to stay neutral or objective to the information
     3) Research and document our findings  and..

     This is not all the steps but some of the basic ones. Our informative paper should be just that. Information.  The various means of research or facts can be unlimited, so we need to present the information clearly and consisely so that our readers will fully understand and be drawn in and want to find out more on the subject. It should be organized, establishing our points from early on.

     This paper should be researched throughly and notes compared. Many different searches will come up with various quotes and objectives to this subject.  We should not be argumental or our points of view should not be noted.  It is not our views upon which we write but information based on others point of view and proven knowledge and information. All credits should be specifically stated and in order and a easy to locate reference for the reader to have verification, should they choose to do so.

     It should be concluded with a strong statement, an example that will stand out to the reader. A key point as to the reason, facts or implications of the information you have provided.

   Knowledge and information from one source to another in vital to our universe.



RESEARCH..Finding something about "everything"

Research, trying to find out all you can about something.   There are so many places one can look. My experiences are so minimal at best.  In researching for this second paper, I tryed the world wide web first, of course, easier and more simplified it seemed but very limited.

The Kent library was much more extensive and a learned some from just searching it. I feel that it should be a course of its own. I remember going to a library and looking up an index card and going to shelves and "hoping" that the book was put back into the "right place".

I realize now that the search methods are so extensive that it makes that system seem like child's play.

In researching for this paper I found most of my sources in the magazine National Geographic.

 

I believe however that I did not submit my paper on Mr. Sentell's requirements. After reviewing the assignment over again, I feel like I wrote a good paper but I don't feel I analysed the information. I consumed it and wrote it but didn't feel like I made comparisons in an analytic form.

 

Research and the tutorials make it possible and I am discovering new ways and methods every day. I am learning and have learned a lot of techniques from several of you. Reading your blogs give me ideas, tips and new information so I feel that they are research in itself.

 

So I can definitely put word of mouth, or in this case blogs, a vital source of research and information.

 

I feel I need a great deal more research on "research".

 

 

 

SUGAR.. The Not so Sweet Side of It

I have decided to write my rhectorical paper on sugar and glucose and the addiction that we all have of it.

I found this article in the August issue of National Geographic Magazine. The thesis part of this which I have already looked into and done research is how much sugar the average American eats each day without dipping into a sugar bowl. It reads, quote; " The average American eats 22.7 teaspoons of sugar a day due to sugars in processed foods. I futher hope to explore the differences and dangers (context lexical ties) in sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, and other sweeters.

One of our most studied concerns in this age is diet soda due to the dangers of the high content of high-fructose corn syrup that is used. I don't know about you but I love my diet coke. LOVE LOVE and crave it. It is 10:00 AM and I have already drank two of my most "delicious drinks".  So hopefully with this research and paper that I write I will learn as well as be able to explain some of the myth,s dangers and concerns over this subject as well as write a convincing and interesting rhectorical analysis.

Will I give up my diet coke due to findings?  i don't think so, matter of fact think I'll have another, Cheers!!

                         

Mine, ALL MINE!







                                                 

                                                       

LET'S JUST GET TO THE POINT

The Paramedic method of writing, orginally developed by Richard Lanthan in Revising Prose is now used to edit any kind of professional writing. It is used to make your writing a more consistent and clear writing in order for it to be easier to comprehend.

In regards to our assignment of finding or writng the "longest sentence", there are so many in which to choose from that the sentence I am using is by no means the longest.

The paramedic method, or to say more with less, is a method that takes work and practice as well as a lot of thought.

Used by a collection agency the sentence read

We use a professional collection agency whose expertise has proven successful in the recovery process because we believe that a specialized approach and focus for recovering from insured individuals are the most effective.

My revised sentence
 
 We have found that collection experts do the best job of recovering money from uninsured individuals.

As we are just learning this method it is a lot easier for us to write words that come to mind and in sometimes we feel that we just need to put something down in order to get the word count required.  That effect is useless if the writing is jargon that really makes no sense to us as students and is not helping us to learn the methods.