Thursday, September 6, 2012

Optional Blog 1

Revising my Research Question Generation Document.....

            To begin revising my essay, I am going to first start with my research question. I am keeping the same idea in my question, just altering the wording a little to make it more clear to my readers.  As of now, my research question states, “How has technology hurt our literacy in society?” However, thanks to the suggestion of my peer reviewer, I am now altering my question to say, “How has technology negatively affected our society’s literacy?” Next, in the second paragraph of my Part I, I need to change my wording and sentences around because I am repeating information.  This makes the example that I am giving unclear.  Moreover, I need to explain my idea a little clearer in the third paragraph of Part II.  I state that newspapers and writing letters are becoming less popular.  However, I need to explain how this affects and hurts society’s literacy.  I could also be a little clearer when I use the quote from Future of Literacy.  I should elaborate more on how this quote is relevant to my research topic.  Furthermore, in Part I, I could make my first and second paragraphs lead more into how I got into reading on the iPad and using technology.  Lastly, I need to double check to make sure I am using all aspects of MLA format.  For example, I need to adjust my in-text citation when I use the quote from Future of Literacy.  In the end, I should take a close look at my sentence structure to make sure all my thoughts are conveyed clearly.  If they are not, it may take away from the meaning behind what I am trying to say.  

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