Assignment Problem:
This question has two parts. Both parts require you to use the attached reading, "Connected, but Alone?" by Sherry Turkle.
Academic Response: In a well-organized, well-supported paragraph of at least two hundered w., respond to one of Sherry Turkle's main arguments. Do you agree or disagree? Refer briefly but specifically to the reading to support your argument.
Transfer Response (20 marks) Choose one of the two prompts below and write a response of at least four hundred w. Read the prompt carefully, considering your audience, purpose and the conventions of your chosen genre.
Prompts:
Have just been hired as a writer for a student website. Your first assignment is to write a blog on how to write persuasively. Your editor wants you to use the reading "Connected, but Alone?" as an example of persuasive techniques. Write a blog of about four hundered words that explains some of the most important techniques of writing persuasively and use the article as an example. Since most of your readers will not have read this article, you will have to briefly summarize it for them as well.
Work for a publisher that is putting out a collection of readings for students on the relationship between "screen time" and mental health. Your editor has asked you to find articles and talks that are relevant to today and highly persuasive. Write an email to your editor, David York, arguing that "Connected, but Alone?" should be included in the collection.