Now that I’ve discussed the idea about bad sources, I’d like to delve right into my topic and show you how to appropriately incorporate sources into your writing (that is, once you weed out the bad ones by using the techniques I discussed in my last blog post).
Is technology causing the downfall of family? According to psychotherapist Melinda Clayton, “Family communication is in crisis. Not only are families faced with historical issues that have always challenged family communication...they’re also faced with an onslaught of technological distractions.” In Clayton’s article in the Relationships and Family: Communication section Helium.com, she notes a lot of common situations that I personally see happen all of the time.
How many times have you been in the middle of a conversation with your parents or siblings when your phone went off in your pocket? That simple event can destroy the conversation. It can not only distract the participants of the dialogue, but if you choose to leave and answer the text or phone call that just came in, you’re showing what you find to be the priority of that moment. Even by deciding to answer, you decide that the conversation between you and your family member isn’t as important as the possibilities of whatever you just received.
Dana Wollman, a writer for Laptop Magazine, wrote an article for the magazine’s website entitled “Is Technology Tearing Apart Family Life?” Wollman covers many factors including text messaging, social networking, and online video. From the beginning to the end of the article, Wollman is strategic about how she intertwines the words of many individuals with degrees in fields relating to her topic. Instead of just writing based on opinion, and quoting just anyone, the people she chose to include had actual backgrounds in the areas of discussio
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For example, Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe, MD is a member of the Council on Communication and Media of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and was quoted saying that “We’ve let technology invade places where it never used to have a role. [Parents] think it’s their right, if they own a cell phone, they can surf the Web [anytime].” That testimony is important in the issue of family and technology because it really shows the negative effects technology is having on the family.
Dana Wollman and Melinda Clayton provided me and my blog with credible sources to look at in very different ways. While Wollman included credible people with a background in the topic, Clayton herself had that background.
Is technology causing the downfall of family? According to psychotherapist Melinda Clayton, “Family communication is in crisis. Not only are families faced with historical issues that have always challenged family communication...they’re also faced with an onslaught of technological distractions.” In Clayton’s article in the Relationships and Family: Communication section Helium.com, she notes a lot of common situations that I personally see happen all of the time.
How many times have you been in the middle of a conversation with your parents or siblings when your phone went off in your pocket? That simple event can destroy the conversation. It can not only distract the participants of the dialogue, but if you choose to leave and answer the text or phone call that just came in, you’re showing what you find to be the priority of that moment. Even by deciding to answer, you decide that the conversation between you and your family member isn’t as important as the possibilities of whatever you just received.
Dana Wollman, a writer for Laptop Magazine, wrote an article for the magazine’s website entitled “Is Technology Tearing Apart Family Life?” Wollman covers many factors including text messaging, social networking, and online video. From the beginning to the end of the article, Wollman is strategic about how she intertwines the words of many individuals with degrees in fields relating to her topic. Instead of just writing based on opinion, and quoting just anyone, the people she chose to include had actual backgrounds in the areas of discussio
n.For example, Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe, MD is a member of the Council on Communication and Media of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and was quoted saying that “We’ve let technology invade places where it never used to have a role. [Parents] think it’s their right, if they own a cell phone, they can surf the Web [anytime].” That testimony is important in the issue of family and technology because it really shows the negative effects technology is having on the family.
Dana Wollman and Melinda Clayton provided me and my blog with credible sources to look at in very different ways. While Wollman included credible people with a background in the topic, Clayton herself had that background.
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ReplyDeleteI found this article about teens and cell phones. It includes statistical evidence and the methods of their research, providing some credible evidence. It also includes some technology expert's quotes about their findings.
You are right, according to this article, technology could actually be causing damage in families. The way this article describes the effect of cell phones on the lives of teens suggest that, they just would not be able to live without them. It is the "key to their social life" the article says. Face it, as a teen, what could be more important than your social life? Not only that, some feel a lot safer knowing they have a cell phone with them. I think that in itself is one of the better aspects of mobile devices but can often be hidden by aspects such as the time teenagers spend playing games on their phone, and social networking, and texting. It is just seems evident that it would eventually have a great effect on their ability to communicate in person.